Re: QDM2 progress report

Jim Leonard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.xine.codec.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Benjamin Larsson wrote:

> Companding is used in most codecs I think. 

That wasn't my impression... however, I've got simple time domain codecs 
on the brain right now so I'm biased.  If I do frequency-domain codec 
research I'll probably change my mind.

> If you requantize PCM you can 
> get down to 12bits/sample before the quantization noise gets to 
> noticeble. If you compand it you can get it down to 11 bits/sample. 

 > But going from 16 to 8 bits is too harsh.

mu-law is based on 14-bit input, not 16-bit.  Small nitpick.  But I 
agree that even 14-bit to 8-bit is too harsh, even if the quantization 
isn't linear.
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