changeset 3373:e5b881ac961e

Corrected front:surround levels
author steve
date Fri, 07 Dec 2001 22:36:33 +0000
parents 0704cb60a223
children c49a9b272c44
files libao2/pl_surround.c
diffstat 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/libao2/pl_surround.c	Fri Dec 07 17:43:20 2001 +0000
+++ b/libao2/pl_surround.c	Fri Dec 07 22:36:33 2001 +0000
@@ -155,9 +155,20 @@
 
   out = pl_surround.databuf;  in = (int16_t *)ao_plugin_data.data;
   for (i=0; i<samples; i++) {
+
+    // About the .707 here and the /2 for surround:
+    //   Surround encoding does the following:
+    //       Lt=L+.707*C+.707*S, Rt=R+.707*C-.707*S
+    //   So S needs to be extracted as:
+    //       .707*(L-R)
+    //   But L-R could still be as much as 32767-(-32768), way off scale
+    //   for signed 16 bits, so to avoid running out of bits, whilst still
+    //   keeping levels in balance, we scale L and R down by 3dB (*.707),
+    //   and scale the surround down by 6dB (.707*.707=.5)
+
     // front left and right
-    out[0] = in[0];
-    out[1] = in[1];
+    out[0] = in[0]*.707;
+    out[1] = in[1]*.707;
     // surround - from 15msec ago
     out[2] = pl_surround.delaybuf[pl_surround.delaybuf_ptr];
     out[3] = -out[2];