[opus] Antw: Re: Antw: [EXT] Opus merging streams

[Sampo Syreeni]

On 2022-04-06, Andrew Sonzogni wrote:

> So if I resume, it's better to decode, then use the sum of each 
> channel scaled by the square root of the number of channels.

That's if you want to maximize your usage of bit depth. But I'd still 
argue for just doing a sum. I mean, if your application is anything like 
the one I'm envisioning -- the conferencing kind -- would you want 
everybody to be able to speak at a constant volume? To shout over each 
other without the havoc being compressed to noise?

Please, just work in say 24 bits, leave some headroom, and sum directly. 
:)

> Is that right ? Or is there some kind of trickier and better algorithms that 
> I'm not aware of ?

Sounds about right.

> Sorry if my questions seems childish, I don't have that much 
> experience in audio based algorithms and it's kind of fascinating how 
> much it can be tricky to adjust correctly some parameters or even find 
> the correct algorithms for a certain use case.

Nothing childish about it, and also, I'm no guru.

E.g. as I said already, that mix-normalization question of yours is 
*ages* old and *never* to date settled. My preferred solution wouldn't 
even have been implementable a decade back, and pretty much just 
analogue cinematic sound engineers would abide by it.
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