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

[Alex Converse]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Jason Garrett-Glaser
<darkshikari at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

One possible solution is to only apply the filter when manually
specified until a good cutoff decision is implemented. At medium and
high bitrates that policy should be sufficient, at low bitrates
quality would probably suffer (but the current situation is garbage
anyway)