Timothy B. Terriberry authored Jan 31, 2011 and Jean-Marc Valin committed Jan 31, 2011

Previously, we would only split a band if it was allocated more than
 32 bits.
However, the N=4 codebook can only produce about 22.5 bits, and two
 N=2 bands combined can only produce 26 bits, including 8 bits for
 qtheta, so if we wait until we allocate 32, we're guaranteed to fall
 short.
Several of the larger bands come pretty far from filling 32 bits as
 well, though their split versions will.

Greg Maxwell also suggested adding an offset to the threshold to
 account for the inefficiency of using qtheta compared to another
 VQ dimension.
This patch uses 1 bit as a placeholder, as it's a clear
 improvement, but we may adjust this later after collecting data on
 more possibilities over more files.