[FFmpeg-user] ITU-R BS.1770-1 (Netflix) audio measurement, just hack it...

Bouke bouke at editb.nl
Thu Aug 12 14:33:25 EEST 2021



> On 11 Aug 2021, at 12:18, Bouke <bouke at editb.nl> wrote:
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>> On 11 Aug 2021, at 09:01, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Am 10.08.2021 um 11:03 schrieb Bouke <bouke at editb.nl>:
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>>> I'm using the R128 functionality now, but Netflix wants sound to be Dolby dialogue-gated measured.
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>>> Seems that the needed Dolby code is free now.
>> 
>> Very generally, this was unlikely, after following the links you provided, it’s not correct.
>> („free“ has more than one meaning, on a mailing list that deals with open source software, the interpretation „no money needed“ is not relevant.)
> 
> Hi Carl Eugen,
> Sorry, my bad, I should have seen that one coming.
> 
> Nevertheless, I can see some possibilities:
> Redo / reverse engineer the dialog gating with ’some’ filter, and implement 1770-1.
> It does not need to be exact the same as Dolby wants, as Netflix allows for +/- 2 LU. (And that’s a lot I woud think.)
> 
> Another option perhaps could be that I pay someone for a custom version that I can distribute. (In which case I need to do the Dolby dance.)


Thinking of it, for Netflix delivery, there also have to be stems.
So a silence detection of the dialogue stem should provide data for timeline measuring.
It won’t be exactly the same, but I bet it will get very close.

Bouke

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> What do you think?
> 
> Bouke
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>> 
>> Carl Eugen
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