[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] AAC Encoder: clipping avoidance

[Claudio Freire]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Michael Niedermayer
<michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
>> If you mean a transition in time, I don't think it makes any
>> difference. 0.95 is a ~0.5db change in intensity, which ought to be
>> inaudible, and windowing will already take care to make the transition
>> smooth. And the logic wouldn't be completely free either to ramp
>> gradually, as it would have to ramp fully to 0.95 by the time it
>> reaches the first window marked as clipping hazard, and it could very
>> well be the frist window.
>
> what i meant was that whatever condition is used to hard switch
> between 1.0 and 0.95 could be rather a soft transition that is
> for example
> insteda of
> if (x > 0.0) f = 0.95
>
> something like
> if (x > 0.0 && x<1.0) f = 1.0 + (0.95 - 1.0)*x
>
> so theres no discontinuity in the transition

Could be done, but that would require a different structure in aacpsy.
Will take a look.