Return-Path: Message-ID: <000801c5a69f$0f89b0e0$0201a8c0@NBVICTOR> From: "Victor Shcherbatyuk" To: References: <42E8F2B6.6090804@xmission.com> <001001c5a680$cfb641e0$0201a8c0@NBVICTOR> <0ac501c5a69b$3cd87e90$640aa8c0@ROBYHOME> Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] sbc and fixed-point progress MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Sender: bluez-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: bluez-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Reply-To: bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: BlueZ development List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:24:13 +0200 It might be that 32 bit implementation will suffice, cause the one I did some time before had some flaws, I will try to do it again some time later. For 64-bit arithmetics (MUL64 , MULA64 defines) you can look at libmad, they have it for many platforms and probably it will be more efficient. Most of inefficiency now is probably outside of synthesis filter (memcopies and so on)... Victor. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roberto" To: Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 23:56 Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] sbc and fixed-point progress > Thanks Victor I will also try to port to Symbian devices to see the > improvements ...Ciao Roberto > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Victor Shcherbatyuk" > To: > Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 8:47 PM > Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] sbc and fixed-point progress > > >> Hello Brad, >> >> In the attachment is the patch to support fixed point encoding for > 8-subband >> sbc codec. To compie ARM specific version USE_FIXED_ARM should be defined >> (currently in sbc/sbc.c should be in configuration?). It is possible I > broke >> your fixed point tables cause I've changed gen_fixed.c, but it should be >> easy fixable. >> >> Floating point implementation is optimized too, runs 30% faster on my >> AthlonXP. General fixed point (long long) runs slower than floating on my >> PC, which is strange... I do not have HW to test arm specific version >> real >> time, hope no suprises there, but I could have missed something when >> integrating it into sbc code (it decodes well, but how fast, I will try > only >> monday evening). >> >> Using a2play needs to tweak 87 magic number, otherwise it drops samples? >> >> Regards, >> Victor. >> >> P.S. There are a lot of changes, I hope I didn't miss any... Please take >> a >> look, and let me know if something is wrong with it... >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Brad Midgley" >> To: >> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 16:59 >> Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] sbc and fixed-point progress >> >> >> > Victor, >> > >> > Great! Can you send me the output of "cvs diff -u" or the resulting > sbc.c? >> > >> > Even if it's noisy, we will just make it optional using the >> > compile-time >> > option and improve it over time. Right now we have no way at all to > encode >> > on arm, so even a noisy encoder would be going in the right direction. >> > >> > I started working on the decoder but got stuck when I found that the >> > state->W and state->X variables sometimes needed large precision and >> > sometimes had large integer parts (ie in a naive fixed-point >> > implementation, they would need more than 32 bits). I was contemplating >> > keeping a large precision in the fixed point type but using a separate >> > integer for those variables' integer part. >> > >> > Brad >> > >> > Victor Shcherbatyuk wrote: >> >> Hello Brad, >> >> >> >> FYI, >> >> >> >> Yesterday I converted encoder to fixed point (I did it a dirty way, so >> >> probably it doesn't have much of the value). I've converted each of >> >> the >> >> tables with different precision in such a way that the operations >> >> involving the tables (mults and adds) will not overflow 32 bit, and >> >> where necessary I pre-shift intermediate results to prevent >> >> overlowing. >> >> Currently the output is a slightly noisy, but the purpose was to >> >> estimate required performance. The result is, in the current >> >> implementation, using fixed point it is just about to be enough to run >> >> on 400Mhz arm combined with mp3 decoder (mp3 piped though mad mp3 >> >> decoder to sbc encoder to a2play). This means either something is >> >> wrong >> >> :) or SBC codec should be heavily optimized (3 - 5 times ?) to make it >> >> reasonable (memcopies is the first thing to optimize probably)... >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Victor. >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: bluez-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net >> >> [mailto:bluez-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Brad >> >> Midgley >> >> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 6:03 AM >> >> To: BlueZ Mailing List >> >> Subject: [Bluez-devel] sbc and fixed-point progress >> >> >> >> Guys, >> >> >> >> just FYI... >> >> >> >> I found a decent fixed point multiply that preshifts the values before >> >> multiplying them. It keeps things in 32 bits. Most of the roundoff > error >> >> is taken care of in two additional terms. I think the result is >> >> reasonable. >> >> > (http://www.accu.org/acornsig/public/caugers/volume2/issue6/fixedpoint.h >> >> tml) >> >> >> >> If you compile with fixed-point on, libsbc will run both the fixed and >> >> floating point calculations and flag errors when they differ too much. >> >> It seems to be working well and has helped me catch a couple of >> >> fixed-point calculation problems. >> >> >> >> I have the decoder almost finished but I probably need to split some >> >> terms into integer and fixed-point components. Loading up >> >> frame->sb_sample for example can have a big integer part but we want >> >> to >> >> use most of the 32 bit fixed-point type for the fractional part. >> >> >> >> Brad >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> >> SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies >> >> from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, >> >> informative Webcasts and more! 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