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Old 15th November 2009, 22:22   #1041  |  Link
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for any further comparisons you should turn on block switching in Aften since DD does block switching by default.
It was turned on for aften_spec and aften_wide in the first comparison I have posted.
And thank you for your work on aften. I hope we'll see even better results than DD has.
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How would you clever AC3 encoding folks suggest maximizing the quality of 384kbps AC3 for 3/2 + LFE encoding?

I'm currently using EncWAVtoAC3 4.2, without any modifications to the advanced parameters.

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How would you clever AC3 encoding folks suggest maximizing the quality of 384kbps AC3 for 3/2 + LFE encoding?

I'm currently using EncWAVtoAC3 4.2, without any modifications to the advanced parameters.
aften -b 384 -exps 32 -s 1 -bwfilter 1

Also, if you can increase the -w parameter without quality going below q=240 then that would be good. The -w -2 (variable bandwidth) option is too experimental to be used generally, but doing a test run with it can give you a good idea of how much you can increase the bandwidth without affecting quality too badly.
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Thanks, jruggle.

I have two different Dolby encoding systems (Media Encoder Server for Mac, and a DP600 encoder server), and will be comparing the quality of both vanilla AC3 and E-AC3. What software was being used earlier in the thread to generate those pretty spectrographs?

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Spectrographs don't tell you anything about the quality.
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aften -b 384 -exps 32 -s 1 -bwfilter 1

Also, if you can increase the -w parameter without quality going below q=240 then that would be good. The -w -2 (variable bandwidth) option is too experimental to be used generally, but doing a test run with it can give you a good idea of how much you can increase the bandwidth without affecting quality too badly.
The same parameters are recommended when use the max bitrate 640 Kb/s?

Maybe the bwfilter is not necesary when use max banwidth.
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New Aften build is available : http://code.google.com/p/wavtoac3encoder/downloads/list
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Can you tell us what has changed in this new version?
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Old 28th December 2009, 22:18   #1049  |  Link
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Wisodev, can you just drag & drop these new libaften.dll's over the existing dll's in your Wav to AC3 Encoder? Will you be updating the Encoder soon?
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Wisodev, can you just drag & drop these new libaften.dll's over the existing dll's in your Wav to AC3 Encoder? Will you be updating the Encoder soon?
New version of WAV to AC3 Encoder is available for download , version 4.3 includes libaften.dll version from 20091226 (Git master head snapshot).
http://code.google.com/p/wavtoac3encoder/downloads/list
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Thanks wisodev.

There are some channel coupling improvement in last Aften version?
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Thanks wisodev.

There are some channel coupling improvement in last Aften version?
There really have not been many changes in a while. Just some tweaks to the exponent strategy decision. There were a few code structure changes in preparation for channel coupling though. And it looks like Prakash has added Windows x64 support while I was away for Christmas.
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New version of WAV to AC3 Encoder is available for download , version 4.3 includes libaften.dll version from 20091226 (Git master head snapshot).
http://code.google.com/p/wavtoac3encoder/downloads/list
Isn't it possible to only get 2 aften libraries which can detect the PC's SIMD capabilities (SSE, SSE2, SSE3, MMX). So only libaften_x86.dll and libaften_x64.dll and not 6 or more different libraries?

So what I mean is a compiled libaften library with all SIMD instructions in it and it checks which instructions it can use depending on a PC's capabilities.
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Isn't it possible to only get 2 aften libraries which can detect the PC's SIMD capabilities (SSE, SSE2, SSE3, MMX). So only libaften_x86.dll and libaften_x64.dll and not 6 or more different libraries?

So what I mean is a compiled libaften library with all SIMD instructions in it and it checks which instructions it can use depending on a PC's capabilities.
All my libaften.dll builds have enabled ALL Aften SIMD optimizations (if your hardware supports specific SIMD it is enabled on runtime). But additionally the MMX, SSE, SSE2, etc. builds have extra optimization made by Intel C++ Compiler and REQUIRE presence of SIMD support in hardware (else you can expect crushes), so you just can use default builds: libaftendll_x86 and libaftendll_AMD64 most of the time.
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All my libaften.dll builds have enabled ALL Aften SIMD optimizations (if your hardware supports specific SIMD it is enabled on runtime). But additionally the MMX, SSE, SSE2, etc. builds have extra optimization made by Intel C++ Compiler and REQUIRE presence of SIMD support in hardware (else you can expect crushes), so you just can use default builds: libaftendll_x86 and libaftendll_AMD64 most of the time.
Ok thanks, will do that. One little question, the libaftendll_AMD64 is only for AMD x64 processors or also Intel x64 processors?
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Ok thanks, will do that. One little question, the libaftendll_AMD64 is only for AMD x64 processors or also Intel x64 processors?
It's AMD and Intel CPU compatible (actually it's compiled using Intel C++ Compiler).
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It's AMD and Intel CPU compatible (actually it's compiled using Intel C++ Compiler).
Better change the name to x64 instead of AMD64.

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New version of WAV to AC3 Encoder is available for download , version 4.3 includes libaften.dll version from 20091226 (Git master head snapshot).
http://code.google.com/p/wavtoac3encoder/downloads/list
thank you so much wisodev!
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Better change the name to x64 instead of AMD64.
Ya, had me confused. I downloaded the AMD64 versions, only to discover that it is for 64bit OSs. I have the AMD64 dual core, but run 32bit OS.
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Which x86 version to use?

I've been using an older version of the files found in the aften_x86 directory.

Which is better, to use the files in the aften_x86 directory, or the files in the libaftendll_x86 directory?

If the libaftendll_x86 contents are used, I'm going to assume that they are placed in the same directory as I've previously done with the aften_x86 contents.

There was nothing in the top level readme file about which should be used, and why.

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