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Old 19th May 2010, 14:59   #10005  |  Link
Abradoks
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Originally Posted by madshi View Post
Hmmmm... Are you really sure about that? Do you still have files with which I can reproduce that? The files in your original post are no longer available for download.
Here they are.
SNR:
out.10N.nero.L.wav 27.386 dB
out.10N.libav.L.wav 27.411 dB
out.10S.nero.L.wav 5.5173 dB
out.10S.libav.L.wav 27.398 dB
tartak wrote on another forum, that with nero decoder DRC is only partially ignored: volume increasing still applies, while attenuation is ignored.
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Originally Posted by madshi View Post
Maybe you're confused by dithering? eac3to lets libav decode to floating point. For WAV/WAVs output eac3to dithers the floating decoding data down to integer. Dithering means adding random noise to the data. So it's clear that if you decode the same AC3/DTS track twice with eac3to/libav, the results will be different each time. If you want floating point WAV/WAVs files instead, use the eac3to "-full" switch. Then the files should be identical every time.
Shame on me. That was dithering indeed. With -full everything works fine.
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