On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Mark Greenwood <fatgerman at ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Saturday 11 April 2009 01:01:04 Lennart Poettering wrote: >> On Tue, 07.04.09 21:17, Mark Greenwood (fatgerman at ntlworld.com) wrote: >> >> > I know this may be subjective, but what is the best quality >> > resampling method? I'm referring to the resample-method= option in >> > /etc/pulse/daemon.conf >> > >> > Mine is currently set to src-linear but I get the impression from >> > the docs that speex-float-9 should be better. As it's quite tricky >> > to do back-to-back listening tests I was wondering if there is some >> > definite objective opinion on the subject? >> >> Depends on your metric do define to be 'best quality'. >> >> Closest to mathematically perfect is src-sinc-best-quality. >> >> src-linear is one of the crappiest. It uses linear interpolation which >> is evil shit. If you consider that good quality you have a very, uh, ... >> distuingished taste. ;-) > > Lol, thanks Lennart. src-linear was not chosen by me but by a package maintainer for a distribution that probably ought to remain nameless. > > I've switched distros now anyway, for various reasons, but I'll try src-sink-best-quality and see if I can hear the difference :) > > Mark > >> >> Lennart Well I don't know about hearing the difference, as with anything like that there is probably a diminishing return. I tried src-sink-best-quality which used 60% CPU in top on one core (Athlon 64 X2 2.7GHz). I didn't get to try it very long because it appeared to cause mythTV (mythmusic) to crash. What would be one step down from src-sink-best-quality? Richard
