Re: [codec] Summary of test results

On 11-06-21 09:04 AM, Erik Norvell wrote:
> Thank you for compiling this summary of pre-Opus tests. It should
> definitely help in designing the listening test on the final Opus.

Just to clarify, the Opus bit-stream *is* final and, as far as these
tests (for both speech and music) are concerned, has been since February.
The latest draft also has the final stereo bit-stream for voice, but all
the rest is long frozen.

> One comment to section 3: "While Opus has evolved since these tests were
> conducted, the results should be considered as a _lower bound_ on the
> quality of the final codec."
>
> I would like to think that the sum is always greater than it's parts,
> but it is definitely possible to make something worse by working on it.
> Hence, statements about Opus performance must be based on tests made on
> the final codec.

Of course it's not a guarantee, but there's definitely value in those tests
results in that it's unlikely that everything always worked fine and then 
we just screwed everything up at the end (if that was the case we would 
have realised it in the other tests).

Cheers,

	Jean-Marc

> Best regards, Erik
>
>> -----Original Message----- From: codec-bounces@ietf.org
>> [mailto:codec-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Marc Valin Sent: den
>> 16 juni 2011 20:53 To: codec@ietf.org Subject: [codec] Summary of test
>> results
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We've collected all the test results we could find for Opus (and
>> pre-Opus) and how they relate to the requirements. We summarized it
>> all in the following draft:
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-valin-codec-results-00
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
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