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Topic: flac and wavpack bitdepth in ffmpeg (Read 4339 times) previous topic - next topic - Topic derived from FFmpeg 7.0 "Dijkstra"...
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flac and wavpack bitdepth in ffmpeg

Quote from: ktf on
One of the major changes in this release is the inclusion of multithreading in the command line tool.

While I was comparing the speed of operations between the last year's and the current version of FFMPEG, I noticed an oddball behavior of the following command: ffmpeg -i in.wav out.wv. If WAV is 16-bit, then WV is 16-bit, but if WAV is 24-bit, then WV is 32-bit. Dear @Porcus, you test lossless a lot, maybe you know what's going on?


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Re: flac and wavpack bitdepth in ffmpeg

Reply #1 –
Quote from: Kraeved on
If WAV is 16-bit, then WV is 16-bit, but if WAV is 24-bit, then WV is 32-bit.
ffmpeg internally knows 16-bit and 32-bit, but it doesn't have an internal representation for 24-bit. So, on decoding, it decodes to 32-bit and then 'forgets' the actual number of bits the data uses, and thus encodes to 32-bit.
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Re: flac and wavpack bitdepth in ffmpeg

Reply #2 –
If you know that the input is 24-bit then the option:
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-bits_per_raw_sample 24
creates 24-bit WV.

Re: flac and wavpack bitdepth in ffmpeg

Reply #3 –
Ah, I thought the multithreading was for encoding audio and video separately etc., but yes decoding and encoding is a point indeed.
 

As for 24 vs 32:
* ffmpeg does that for WavPack, but not for FLAC. Precisely why I don't know, but there was no 32-bit way to do it when there was no 32-bit FLAC support. Anyway the size penalty isn't that big, since WavPack compresses away wasted bits - until you convert to something that doesn't (like, WAVE which doesn't compress neither wasted bits nor anything else)
* For 8 bits, the situation is the other way around: ffmpeg creates 8-bit WavPack, as should - but 16 bit FLAC. That is,
ffmpeg -i 8bitfile.wav outfile.flac makes a 16 bit flac file, but ffmpeg -i 8bitfile.wav outfile.wv makes an 8-bit WavPack file. (Whether source is WAVE or AIFF doesn't matter.)

Quote from: danadam on
If you know that the input is 24-bit then the option:
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-bits_per_raw_sample 24
creates 24-bit WV.
But, -bits_per_raw_sample 8 does not create 8-bit FLAC.

Anyway, bloody annoying there is no way to force ffmpeg into "read input bit depth and use that for output".

Re: flac and wavpack bitdepth in ffmpeg

Reply #4 –
Quote from: Porcus
* ffmpeg does that for WavPack, but not for FLAC. Precisely why I don't know, but there was no 32-bit way to do it when there was no 32-bit FLAC support.
When ffmpeg uses 32-bit for internal processing then flac codec by itself overwrites "bits_per_raw_sample" to 24. You have to use:
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-strict experimental
to stop it from doing that. With that you can produce 32-bit flacs. You can then also use:
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-bits_per_raw_sample 24
yourself to overwrite it back to 24 :)

(see libavcodec/flacenc.c)

Quote from: Porcus
* For 8 bits, the situation is the other way around: ffmpeg creates 8-bit WavPack, as should - but 16 bit FLAC.
That's because wavpack codec has support for all ffmpeg internal datatypes while flac only has support for 16 and 32-bit ones.

In libavcodec/wavpackenc.c:
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const FFCodec ff_wavpack_encoder = {
    ...
    .p.sample_fmts  = (const enum AVSampleFormat[]){ AV_SAMPLE_FMT_U8P,
                                                     AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S16P,
                                                     AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S32P,
                                                     AV_SAMPLE_FMT_FLTP,
                                                     AV_SAMPLE_FMT_NONE },

In libavcodec/flacenc.c:
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const FFCodec ff_flac_encoder = {
    ...
    .p.sample_fmts  = (const enum AVSampleFormat[]){ AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S16,
                                                     AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S32,
                                                     AV_SAMPLE_FMT_NONE },


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Re: flac and wavpack bitdepth in ffmpeg

Reply #5 –
Yeah well, but that just pushes the question one step: why haven't they? 8-bit audio isn't exactly the latest news.