Re: Double precision

Ove Karlsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.mp3.lame
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/21/2013 3:36 PM, Ove Karlsen wrote:
> On 6/21/2013 3:22 PM, Thomas Orgis wrote:
>> Am Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:31:58 +0200
>> schrieb Ove Karlsen <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Does anyone know if increasing internal resolution in lame encoder 
>>> would
>>> be trivial? I thought in 2013, it might be nice to increase that to 
>>> double.
>> Well, in 2013 you'd rather port the single precision code to run on 
>> GPUs;-)
> If you can massively parallelize it, then GPU might benefit.
>>
>> But really, is there any hint that double precision would help anything
>> with MP3 quality? Even for studio productions, I only see 32 bit 
>> float PCM
>> as top-notch format.
> It was.. in 2000.
>> Would using double precision for intermediate
>> calculations really make any difference on a resulting bitstream? I'm
>> not even talking about audible differences.
> It sounds a bit more natural to me. If one only was doing bitcopies 
> ofcourse nothing would change, but usually one does some processing in 
> there, that benefits from precision.
>>
>>
>> Alrighty then,
>>
>> Thomas
> Peace Be With You!
Also I looked barely at the code. It says "sample_t" is internal 
resolution, however I guess other parts of processing needs double aswell?

Peace Be With You.

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