Timothy B. Terriberry authored 14 years ago and Jean-Marc Valin committed 14 years ago

This stores the caps array in 32nd bits/sample instead of 1/2 bits
 scaled by LM and the channel count, which is slightly less
 less accurate for the last two bands, and much more accurate for
 all the other bands.
A constant offset is subtracted to allow it to represent values
 larger than 255 in 8 bits (the range of unoffset values is
 77...304).
In addition, this replaces the last modeline in the allocation table
 with the caps array, allowing the initial interpolation to
 allocate 8 bits/sample or more, which was otherwise impossible.

Timothy B. Terriberry authored 14 years ago and Jean-Marc Valin committed 14 years ago

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.

Timothy B. Terriberry authored 14 years ago and Jean-Marc Valin committed 14 years ago

Use measured cross-entropy to estimate the real cost of coding
 qtheta given the allocated qb parameter, instead of the entropy of
 the PDF.
This is generally much lower, and reduces waste at high rates.
This patch also removes some intermediate rounding from this
 computation.

Timothy B. Terriberry authored 14 years ago and Jean-Marc Valin committed 14 years ago

This extends the previous rebalancing for fine energy in N=1 bands
 to also allocate extra fine bits for bands that go over their cap.