[Theora] OGG theora with mono output

[Neil Morris]

If you want a ready made util to do this and you're on the Windows
platform oggdropXPd has mono mixdown and will resample down to 8kbs.
I'm currently using stereo @ 11.025k/16kbps, the files mux fine with
oggzmerge built with minGW-32.

Neil.


At 16:37 21/01/05 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 16:06, zikzak at tele2.fr wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:03:20 -0800
> > Ralph Giles <giles at xiph.org> wrote:
> > 
> > >On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 08:51:50PM +0100, zikzak at tele2.fr wrote:
> > >
> > >> I would like to create an output file with mono audio.
> > >> How to do it ?
> > >> If use a video with mono as input, the result will be a video with stereo.
> > >> Is there a way to use the --downmix from oggenc ?
> > >
> > >What too are you using that's mixing up? the encoder_example that ships 
> > >with libtheora should, for example, encode the input wave at the input 
> > >number of channels and sample rate.
> > >
> > >If you want to use --downmix you can use oggenc to compress the 
> > >soundtrack separately and then use oggzmerge to multiplex it with
> > >the video. I assume there's a gstreamer commandline that can downmix
> > >the audio as part of encoding too.
> > >
> > >HTH,
> > > -r
> > 
> > Sorry, i'm not clear.
> > I use encoder_example but I would like to have a video with mono output for the audio, encoder_example seems to only produce stereo files.
> > Is there a somewhere in the code a value to change to obtain mono sound only ?
> > My purpose is to reduce the size of the audio and keep a nice quality for the video, because I try to stream the file with a bitrate of 128kbps (audio and video).
> > Currently, audio is around 30kbps.
>
>As Ralph said, encoder_example preserves the number of channels. If you
>feed it stereo, you get stereo; if you feed it mono, you get mono. I'm
>guessing you want to feed it stereo and downmix to mono on the fly.
>
>This can be achieved with a relatively simple change to the
>uninterleaving code (which happens around line 347 in the example from
>current SVN). Instead of uninterleaving the samples into /audio_ch/
>separate analysis buffers, just average them into one buffer. Of course
>you'll also have to tell the encoder in vorbis_encode_init_vbr that
>you're only doing one channel.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Carsten.
>
>
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