[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] lavfi/volume: support volume normalization through metadata.

[Clément Bœsch]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 10:58:21PM +0100, Jan Ehrhardt wrote:
> Nicolas George in gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel (Fri, 1 Mar 2013
> 22:19:18 +0100):
> >Le primidi 11 ventôse, an CCXXI, Nicolas George a écrit :
> >> > Do you mean something like "volume=@{metadata_key}" or I'm still in the
> >> > fog?
> >> Yes, exactly.
> >
> >As a side note, this kind of method would also allow "half-normalization":
> >if you want -23 and you have some parts very loud at -15 and some parts very
> >quiet at -31, you may want to make the loud parts less loud and the quiet
> >parts less quiet, but still keep the loud parts louder than the quiet parts;
> >maybe make them -19 and -27 respectively (halfway). With expression
> >evaluation, that would just be volume="(-23-@{loudness})/2".
> 
> The filter would be the most flexible if you could inject all
> 'loudnesses' into the metadata. Then you could things like:
> 
> volume=metadata=((lavfi.r128.I+lavfi.r128.S)/2)
> 
> By using the average of the Integrated loudness and the Short-term
> loudness you also top off the the extremities.
> 

That's fine with me. I'm just waiting for Stefano to push his volume
patch.

-- 
Clément B.
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