[FFmpeg-devel] [FFmpeg-devel-irc] IRC log for 2010-03-27

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Frank Barchard <fbarchard at google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>wrote:
>
>>
>> if wma sounds better than aac then there must be a pretty nasty bug in the
>> aac encoder
>>
>>
> Instead of 'sounds better', is there a good metric?

IIRC, the problem is that the frequency cutoff decision is basically
broken.  But there might be more than just that.

Here's a comparison involving FF-AAC, FAAC, and the source.  The two
encoded versions are at 160kbps.  You can probably guess which is
which pretty easily.

http://saintdevelopment.com/files/tests.zip

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