Re: [RFC/PATCH] sbc: new filtering function for 8 band fixed point encoding

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Siarhei,

> > Right now I'm also doublechecking correctness of the code to ensure that
> > there are no overflows of other problems related to audio quality.
> 
> Here is (hopefully) the final revision of patch. I tested it with all the possible files
> that I could find or generate myself and it seems to work fine in all cases.
> 
> The code was reverted to use fabs macro. After all, looks like it is the right
> way to handle scale factors and adheres to the specification. The weird
> effects on sound quality related to the use of fabs and the modified macro
> which was tried as a replacement have been apparently the side effects of
> other bugs.
> 
> Also I have to admit that the change from
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-bluetooth&m=122946440507726&w=2
> is not needed and the original patch was in fact correct. The output of
> quantizer is strictly a positive number (unless there are bugs or overflows).
> This was also changed back.
> 
> Rounding for the values in the final analysis function output was removed
> (we already keep a lot of extra bits in output, so it does not matter for
> precision). Also the change of SCALE_OUT_BITS to 15 has a nice feature
> that the shifting of output values is not needed at all for 16-bit version
> (and naturally rounding is not needed here too), this should be good for
> performance.

I applied your patch to the upstream tree. Thanks for your work. I know
like to get feedback from other people if this helps us with the SBC
conformance testing and the audio quality.

Regards

Marcel