I hear momentary audio drop-outs (silences) in some flacs I have encoded. These occur at the same time as "wasted bits" messages in my mplayer output. [flac @ 0x860fb00]coding type: constant [flac @ 0x860fb00]1 wasted bits [flac @ 0x860fb00]coding type: constant [flac @ 0x860fb00]6 wasted bits Is there a way to prevent these at encode-time? If this is not the appropriate list for such a question, can you please tell me where to find such a list? Thanks, Jay --------------------------------- Ring'em or ping'em. Make PC-to-phone calls as low as 1?/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/attachments/20060604/88605d97/attachment.htm
--- Jay Yukie <jukie06@yahoo.com> wrote:> I hear momentary audio drop-outs (silences) in some flacs I have > encoded. These occur at the same time as "wasted bits" messages in > my mplayer output. > > [flac @ 0x860fb00]coding type: constant > [flac @ 0x860fb00]1 wasted bits > [flac @ 0x860fb00]coding type: constant > [flac @ 0x860fb00]6 wasted bits > > Is there a way to prevent these at encode-time?no, there's no option for disabling the 'wasted bits' checking. are you sure the dropouts aren't in the original input? 'constant' subframes are used when the signal goes DC (i.e. stays at one constant value) which will manifest as silence. try decoding to WAV with flac itself and play the WAV file. and/ or try playing the FLAC file in xmms or some other player and see what happens. Josh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com