[LAU] ebur128 batch processing

Fons Adriaensen fons at linuxaudio.org
Fri Mar 7 23:17:38 UTC 2014


On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:56:06PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
 
> How then do they handle the noise floor when they are running rms 27db 
> below a lot of the rest of the planet?

I suspect you are mixing up physical voltage levels in dBm and 
digital levels here (since 4 + 23 = 27).

The -23 dB standard loudness reference of ebur128 is relative
to digital peak level, not to 0 dBm.

Ciao,

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