RE: [PATCH] sbc: bitstream packing optimization for encoder.

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Christian,

> > > The sound quality of the fix point implementation still remains below
> > of the
> > > quality of the floating point version.
> > >
> > > Maybe, we shall support both depending on the performance
> > requirements?
> > 
> > I think we should focus a fixed point version. There should be no need
> > for floating point at all. If fixed point isn't good enough, then we
> > screwed it up.
> > 
> > And in case of embedded devices we are seriously limited with floating
> > point and doing that in software just doesn't work out. And this is
> > mostly not directly a performance problem. It is more a power
> > consumption problem. We don't wanna have A2DP drain the battery.
> >
> 
> It would help if we use 64 bit integers if a good sound is required but this
> is again a problem for embedded devices.

depends on. Looking at the libmad library, they do a pretty good job in
just using integers.

Regards

Marcel