Re: [AD] new resampling

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Elias Pschernig <info@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:17:23 -0400
>SiegeLord <slabode@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 04/21/2012 06:08 AM, Elias Pschernig wrote:
>>  > Oh, good catch, didn't think of that. But then it should only have
>>  > happened with linear resampling. I also don't understand why it's
>>  > not reproducible here. Oh well, if this really fixes it I'll just
>>  > conclude that my ears or headphones are rather bad. Or that
>>  > pulseaudio does some unasked for post-processing, wouldn't
>>  > surprise me the least.
>> 
>> Yes, with point resampling the metallic noise is still there. It was 
>> there even before these patches, however, so it's just an
>> illustration of how bad point resampling is.
>> 
>> As for why you couldn't hear it... here's two spectra of the ex_synth
>
>> output (peak on the left is the frequency of the sine wave - 660 Hz,
>> and all other peaks are junk introduced by resampling).
>> 
>> http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/1895/resamplingspectra.png
>> 
>> I suppose there are quite a few peaks in the very high frequency
>> ranges, so they can easily start approaching hardware limitations.
>> 
>>
>
>Interesting. So yeah, I suppose if you'd give me a recording of both
>I'd still hear no difference.
>
>Something else I saw is with alsa I get very small buffers, alternating
>between 32 and 12 samples. However the linear interpolation right now
>will not go over a buffer boundary. So there's a step every 32/12
>samples. I obvously won't hear a difference - but might be worth fixing
>(although it doesn't look easy to fix, probably would need to delay all
>audio by one sample and then somehow keep the very last sample of each
>buffer around for the next buffer to interpolate the first sample
>against).

Yes. Turns out to be not too hard, fortunately.

>
>The real question also is why our alsa driver behaves in this way,
>tiny fragments likely will have all other kinds of troubles
>(maybe also explains the crackling Peter mentioned?)
>

Haven't investigated this yet.

Peter

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