[vlc-devel] [PATCH] opus: apply soft clipping when decoding

[Tristan Matthews]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Tristan Matthews <tmatth at videolan.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Francois Cartegnie <fcvlcdev at free.fr> wrote:
>> Le 27/06/2017 à 19:37, Tristan Matthews a écrit :
>>> This patch uses Opus' soft clipping API to avoid clipping when decoding.
>>> This is preferable to hard clipping which will introduce undesired
>>> harmonics.
>>
>> Chained Opus glitches ?

But more to your point, this does not resolve the weird distortions
I'm hearing on https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/18401

>
> I was able to have the decoder output samples > 1.0 and < -1.0 on
> every test case I tried, including the chained samples.
> (Paraphrasing Jean-Marc Valin) "Basically any music mastered in the
> last 15 years will be at the rails and clip when decoded".