[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libshine fixed point MP3 encoding support

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Paul B Mahol <onemda <at> gmail.com> writes:

> On 7/30/12, Paul B Mahol <onemda <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/30/12, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos <at> ag.or.at> wrote:
> >> Paul B Mahol <onemda <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> This add support for liquidsoap libshine version,
> >>> available at https://github.com/savonet/shine
> >>
> >> The OP of ticket #1457 claims that the encoder quality is bad -
> >> did you do a speed test?
> >> If it is slow and bad, we should consider a mp2tomp3 bitstream
> >> filter instead.
> >
> > It is slower than fixed point mp2 encoder.

> For quality mp2 seems to be more transparent for one sample
> i tried to abx. This is higly subjective though.

Thank you for testing!

This may be completely wrong, but iirc, a mp2 encoder can be teached 
to output mp3, unfortunately I am unable to do that;-(
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/59399/focus=59423
(Michael's answer indicates that I am wrong.)

Carl Eugen