On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 09:00 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > in my understanding, dithering has nothing to do with downsampling. Yup - my bad. I was confusing terms. Thanks for the correction. > sample rate changes can be handled by a > variety of interpolation techniques, which exist in a plane defined by > two axes: quality and CPU cycles per sample. you can do cheap linear > interpolation and get a pretty unpleasant effect, or use more cycles for > a better result. Thanks for stepping in and clearing this up. Interpolation is the word I was originally looking for. Too many uncaffeinated brain cells too early in the morn' > dithering comes in its own varieties, but they are not > arranged on a simple 2D axis the way that interpolation is. AFAIK, so- > called "pow-f" dithering is spoken of the most highly at present, but > relies on a proprietary (patented, too, i think) algorithm. Very interesting stuff. Thanks for the help. Greg
