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Courgette meets a dangerous (Red) Bend

Courgette meets a dangerous (Red) Bend

Posted Nov 12, 2009 19:06 UTC (Thu) by jrigg (guest, #30848)
In reply to: Courgette meets a dangerous (Red) Bend by gmaxwell
Parent article: Courgette meets a dangerous (Red) Bend

> At high enough rates with well well enough done methods it exceeds the limits of human perception and produces results which are not ABX-able.

I have yet to hear such a thing from mp3, but I agree it would be possible using a good enough method.

> This is relevant because your model of lossless=perfect, lossy=bad brings about unreasonable conclusions.

Actually my model for compression is: audible=bad, inaudible=good.

It can be argued that the principle of perceptually weighted compression is obvious to a practitioner in the art, but then I think the same applies to many patents. In practice the criterion often seems to be whether or not it is obvious to the patent examiner.


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