> On 14 Sep 2020, at 15:56, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 14 Sep 2020, at 14:27, [email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I tried my example with adding silence before and after and i get both times 
>> -23.3db LUFS for i & m. 
> 
>>> What happens when you use -ss and -t besides the silence (to crop the 
>>> silence start / end, work here…)
> 
> How does this work? Does it crop the silence from the file or is it just for 
> not measuring the silence parts at beginning and end??
> Do you have a command i can try?

Put in -ss <duration added silence start in secs> -t <duration added silence at 
end in secs> after the -i <input>

Bouke

> 
> 
>> Which is a 1db variation to the customers value. If all files are coming 
>> with a 1db difference, that would be something we could work with.
>> So we are not precisely here, but its good enough for now.
>> I wonder how the meters are measuring it. As they dont have problmes with 
>> durations.
>> We will try ... 
> 
>>> 1 dB is not really a big difference I would think, and since this is not 
>>> broadcast I take it, it ‘should’ not matter, as long as all input gets to 
>>> the same percepted value.
> 
> Yes its not much, but its mostly due to controlling issues, not to hit the 
> same value. So the measurement must be somehow exact, up to +-2db variation 
> to make sure the controlling is useful. When it comes to close-up diaologs 
> and heavy compression, 2 - 4 db can be a lot. But this is the minor case 
> mostly 😊
> 
> 
> What are you doing, game assets?
> 😊 yep
> 
> 
> Bouke
> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: ffmpeg-user <[email protected]> Im Auftrag von Bouke
>> Gesendet: Montag, 14. September 2020 14:08
>> An: FFmpeg user questions <[email protected]>
>> Betreff: Re: [FFmpeg-user] LUFS measurment for short length audio
>> 
>> 
>>> On 14 Sep 2020, at 13:54, <[email protected]> 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Its all mono we are talking about here
>>> 
>>> Full command line would be
>>> ffmpeg -nostats -i '#{filename}' -filter_complex ebur128 -f null -
>>> 2>&1 (i only forward this from the IT section, but its the standard
>>> ffmpeg lufs measurment as far as i know)
>>> 
>>> yes, we dont know if the customer values are correct. The problem is, there 
>>> is no correct if you dont use the same method/algo.
>>> There are different meters coming up with different values on LUFSs, 
>>> specially if you are under 0,4s.
>>> You are right, the best would be to use the same method, but our customer 
>>> wont share their method and we cant reverse engineer something we dont own.
>>> 
>>> Yes, there ist the (m) value in the output, but i think its not very 
>>> reliable ... as the file measured isnt silent 😊
>> 
>> I would think M is not relevant, as it should equal I if the file is 400 
>> Msecs… And I can reproduce the issue on a short file. But, if I cat the file 
>> with silence before / after, then measure with adding -ss yadda -t sourcedur 
>> it seems to work.
>> (But a looped input results the same values when scanned fully.)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Bouke.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: ffmpeg-user <[email protected]> Im Auftrag von 
>>> Bouke
>>> Gesendet: Montag, 14. September 2020 13:41
>>> An: FFmpeg user questions <[email protected]>
>>> Betreff: Re: [FFmpeg-user] LUFS measurment for short length audio
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 14 Sep 2020, at 13:23, [email protected] wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> To cat means to loop the file until it is longer then 0,4s?
>>> 
>>> yes
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Yes we tried, there is a variation of 3db or more, so it is kind of 
>>>> suboptimal.
>>> 
>>> If it’s exact 3db, it smells like you might render the file to mono on 
>>> catting, are you sure that’s not the case?
>>> 
>>>> We also know the loudnorm command.
>>> 
>>> Why, if you want to conform to R128 specs, you analyse, get the I 
>>> value, and lower / up the volume by the measured Integrated minus 
>>> target Integrated (in Db, one LU is equal to one dB)
>>>> 
>>>> We use this command atm to read out values:
>>>> 
>>>> ffmpeg -nostats -i 'filename' -filter_complex ebur128 -f null
>>> 
>>> This might or might not work, if it’s 5.1, you would need to omit the LFE 
>>> channel, and if there are multiple tracks you would need to patch the 
>>> correct ones first.
>>> So, full command line / output missing :-) (I would never think I 
>>> would write this…)
>>> 
>>>> and it is fine with all files >0,4s. As it should be relating to the 
>>>> ebu128 definition.
>>>> 
>>>> Anyway, our customer provides us with lufs values for shorter lenghts and 
>>>> he wont tell us how he analyses it.
>>> 
>>> So you have no clue if your client measurements are correct? I would not 
>>> accept this, you would need to reverse engineer your clients steps...
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Now we tried to read out momentary lufs, as it works with 400ms windows, 
>>>> but im not sure if i get correct values here.
>>>> As it shows -120db mLUFS for an example and on proTools it says 
>>>> -23--24db (with DPMeterXP2)
>>> 
>>> -120 is silence…
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Anybody an idea how to read out reliable momentary LUFS values with ffmpeg?
>>> 
>>> Not sure how reliable it is, but it’s just in the output I would 
>>> think…
>>> 
>>> Bouke
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>> Von: ffmpeg-user <[email protected]> Im Auftrag von 
>>>> Gyan Doshi
>>>> Gesendet: Montag, 14. September 2020 09:50
>>>> An: [email protected]
>>>> Betreff: Re: [FFmpeg-user] LUFS measurment for short length audio
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 14-09-2020 01:15 pm, Bouke wrote:
>>>>>> On 09 Sep 2020, at 10:33, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi list!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Can somebody help to measure LUFS for audio files under 0,4 seconds???
>>>>>> 
>>>>> Cat it a couple of times first?
>>>> 
>>>> A few more times is required. Total duration should be  >3 seconds.
>>>> 
>>>> See https://superuser.com/q/1281327/
>>>> 
>>>> Gyan
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