On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 09:44:06AM +0100, Wiebe Cazemier wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "madshi" <mad...@gmail.com> > > To: "FFmpeg development discussions and patches" <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> > > Sent: Thursday, 26 March, 2015 8:49:28 AM > > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Default dynamic range compression on AC3 > > > > Doesn't really matter. What does matter is a reasonable default choice. And > > it's currently wrong, IMHO. Screw the AC3 spec which wants it to be on by > > default. That's just stupid. Just my 2 cents, of course. > > Is it even in the spec? If so, Dolby seriously shot themselves in the foot. > No wonder DTS won the audio war on DVD. > > I remember about 10 years ago that I found this setting in WinDVD. After > switching to Linux and Xine, I discovered that AC3 can actually sound very > good. Guess what: I found out that even with WinDVD set to full range, DRC > was still applied! > > This wrong default and the fact that a lot of people (developers, audio > philes, etc) don't know about the DRC metadata has been following me for > years. > > So who can decide this (or whom can I persuade :))? I can write a patch, > shouldn't be too hard :).
can you provide a sample (short/small one preferred) that "shows" that a real world sample sounds better with a changed default ? not critical but does someone have a list of titles which sound better with one or the other default ? and yes, please post a patch, this also should bump the version number and add a note in the Changelog file > > And then I have to also take it up with Libav? I'm confused about libavcodec > in ffmpeg and libav. > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel > -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB You can kill me, but you cannot change the truth.
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