[Vorbis] Floor1 doubts...

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 10:29:21 PST 2009


2009/11/14 Eldhelrim <eldhelrim at gmail.com>:
> Could someone please give me a hand with this?
>
> What I'd like to know is, if the floor is a superposition of the noise and
> tone masks, and the greatest value it can have is 0dB (linear value = 1),
> what happens if, for example, the mask a a frequency X equals to 10 dB?
> Because as I understand the floor, it couldn't be able to represent it. So I
> suppose I have some wrong idea...
>

I don't know for sure, but it appears the intention is floor dB values
are negative, which makes sense for encoding values ranging [-1,1].

-- 
imalone


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