[FFmpeg-user] LUFS measurment for short length audio

[Bouke]

> On 14 Sep 2020, at 13:23, christian.will at 4-real.com wrote:
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> To cat means to loop the file until it is longer then 0,4s?

yes

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> 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:
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> 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


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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: ffmpeg-user <ffmpeg-user-bounces at ffmpeg.org> Im Auftrag von Gyan Doshi
> Gesendet: Montag, 14. September 2020 09:50
> An: ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org
> Betreff: Re: [FFmpeg-user] LUFS measurment for short length audio
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> On 14-09-2020 01:15 pm, Bouke wrote:
>>> On 09 Sep 2020, at 10:33, christian.will at 4-real.com wrote:
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>>> 
>>> Hi list!
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>>> Can somebody help to measure LUFS for audio files under 0,4 seconds???
>>> 
>> Cat it a couple of times first?
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> A few more times is required. Total duration should be  >3 seconds.
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> See https://superuser.com/q/1281327/
> 
> Gyan
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