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

Steve Lhomme robux4 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 28 08:37:52 CEST 2017


On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Tristan Matthews <tmatth at videolan.org> wrote:
> This patch uses Opus' soft clipping API to avoid clipping when decoding.
> This is preferable to hard clipping which will introduce undesired
> harmonics.
>
> ---
>  modules/codec/opus.c | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/modules/codec/opus.c b/modules/codec/opus.c
> index a5953bc..10645a9 100644
> --- a/modules/codec/opus.c
> +++ b/modules/codec/opus.c
> @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ struct decoder_sys_t
>       */
>      OpusHeader header;
>      OpusMSDecoder *p_st;
> +    float *p_softclip_state;
>
>      /*
>       * Common properties
> @@ -190,6 +191,7 @@ static int OpenDecoder( vlc_object_t *p_this )
>      p_dec->pf_flush     = Flush;
>
>      p_sys->p_st = NULL;
> +    p_sys->p_softclip_state = NULL;
>
>      return VLC_SUCCESS;
>  }
> @@ -343,6 +345,12 @@ static int ProcessInitialHeader( decoder_t *p_dec, ogg_packet *p_oggpacket )
>      p_dec->fmt_out.audio.i_channels = p_header->channels;
>      p_dec->fmt_out.audio.i_rate = 48000;
>
> +    /* State memory for the soft clipping process, 1 float/channel */
> +    p_sys->p_softclip_state = calloc( p_header->channels, sizeof(float) );
> +    if( !p_sys->p_softclip_state ) {
> +        return VLC_ENOMEM;
> +    }
> +
>      if( p_header->channels>2 )
>      {
>          static const uint32_t *pi_ch[6] = { pi_3channels_in, pi_4channels_in,
> @@ -492,6 +500,8 @@ static block_t *DecodePacket( decoder_t *p_dec, ogg_packet *p_oggpacket,
>              buf[i] *= gain;
>      }
>  #endif
> +    opus_pcm_soft_clip((float *)p_aout_buffer->p_buffer, i_nb_samples,

Is  opus_pcm_soft_clip() available in all Opus versions or should we
do a check ?

> +        p_sys->header.channels, p_sys->p_softclip_state);
>      p_aout_buffer->i_nb_samples = i_nb_samples;
>      p_aout_buffer->i_pts = date_Get( &p_sys->end_date );
>      p_aout_buffer->i_length = date_Increment( &p_sys->end_date, i_nb_samples )
> @@ -507,6 +517,7 @@ static void CloseDecoder( vlc_object_t *p_this )
>      decoder_t * p_dec = (decoder_t *)p_this;
>      decoder_sys_t *p_sys = p_dec->p_sys;
>
> +    free( p_sys->p_softclip_state );
>      if( p_sys->p_st ) opus_multistream_decoder_destroy(p_sys->p_st);
>
>      free( p_sys );
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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