Re: [ecasound] int to float or float to int conversion

Hi,

On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Matt Barber wrote:

> How does ecasound convert 16-bit ints to floats? It does not seem to
> be a simple divide by 38768, since a file with a range of -32768 to
> +32767 seems to map perfectly to -1.0 to +1.0 after conversion. This

see eca-sample-conversion.h:
http://ecasound.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ecasound/ecasound;a=blob;f=libecasound/eca-sample-conversion.h;h=f11aced93bd9ff2616c5500205d661cc8c554201;hb=HEAD

And the associated unit tests in:
http://ecasound.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ecasound/ecasound;a=blob;f=libecasound/eca-sample-conversion_test.h;h=fa0c52247290c4886dc98889afde9eaac0f8e70d;hb=HEAD

> is not the case when libsndfile is invoked to open the file -- there
> it looks like a division by 38768, leading to a range -1.0 to
> +0.999969

Yes, there is a slight difference. You can choose which
conversion to use:
   1) if you open sndfile files with float sample format ("-f:f32 -i
      sndfile,foo.wav" ) to libsndfile, libsndfile's conversion
      will be used
   2) if you use fixed format ("-f:s32 -i sndfile,foo.wav", then ecasound's
      conversion will be used

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Received on Mon Jan 18 12:15:01 2010