[MPlayer-dev-eng] Dithering 16-bit output for libmad

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:30:16AM +0100, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Since a lot of people use mplayer as mp3 player (personally, xmms
> > crashed a lot lately, I disliked UI in other gui players, and console
> > ones were lacking good controls), I made a patch that adds dithered
> > 16-bit output for libmad decoder, to increase mp3 playback quality. It
> > works because output from libmad is 24-bit, and producing dithered
> > 16-bit samples out if gives more quality results than rounding to 16
> > bits. The code is ported from madplay.
> 
> What about adding a dither filter to libaf and change ad_libmad to
> output native 24bit audio?

agree totally.

rich