[FFmpeg-devel] Exposing preroll and remainder info for aac and mp3.

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 04:05:17PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le septidi 17 messidor, an CCXX, Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
> > are there some reference files (mp3/aac + wav refernce of what should
> > be the delay free output ?)
> > These would be very usefull to implement this as well as for
> > regression tests so it doesnt break in the future once it works.
> 
> Is it really necessary? We can see for ourselves with any audio file that
> does not have too much silence on the beginning. For example:
> 
> ffmpeg -f lavfi -i aevalsrc='abs(sin(2*PI*t))*sin(2*PI*440*t)::d=10' \
>   test.mp3 test.wav
> ffmpeg -i test.wav -i test.mp3 -filter_complex '
>   [0:0] showwaves=n=15:s=1470x64, pad=iw:ih*2 [a] ;
>   [1:0] showwaves=n=15:s=1470x64 [b] ;
>   [a] [b] overlay=0:64' -vframes 1 test.png
> 
> The output.png shows clearly a 74 pixels delay for the MP3 file, which makes
> about 1110 samples.
> 
> I believe our purpose should be that a round trip encode+decode gives a file
> that is in sync with the original. lame + lame --decode does that, for
> example.

we should aim toward getting our decoder round trip exact with any
other encoder be that lame, faac, ffmpeg, itunes or other.
for this we need sample files from all these encoders.


    
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