[pulseaudio-discuss] Best Quality resampling method?

[Lennart Poettering]

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. ;-)

Lennart

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