[Cin] Fwd: [Libav-user] Creating Panned MP3 Clips

[Andrew Randrianasulu]

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От: Terry Corbet <tcorbet at ix.netcom.com>
Date: вс, 1 янв. 2023 г., 09:10
Subject: [Libav-user] Creating Panned MP3 Clips
To: <libav-user at ffmpeg.org>


I have recently discovered how to use the Audacity Envelope Tool to turn
a standard stereo MP3 file into a modified one in which throughout the
entire duration of the clip the apparent source of the sounds will
traverse from left to right.  While I could use that workflow to
manually perform the same transformation on multiple files, for my own
use as well as to help other family members [who generally have limited
computer skills] I want to automate that workflow.

Over the past four days I have played as much catch-up on the many
topics and toolkits which appear might permit me to engineer a software
solution to this requirement.  As a newbie, I probably will not
correctly summarize what I believe to be the possible tools and
approaches, so please forgive any misuse to the correct terminology.  I
hope/believe that I might be able to state my concepts/questions in a
manner which will be most considerate of the time of those who
participate in this mailing list and most quickly help me move closer to
a good approach to the challenge.

01.  I have managed to download the libraries which are used for the
maintenance of the ffmpeg, ffprobe and ffplay triumvirate of tools.

02.  I have managed to successfully build some sample C programs [taken
from the doc\examples sub-directory and other miscellaneous snippets
found by following the wonderful links from your Wiki] using the
CodeBlocks IDE framework.

03.  I have squirreled my way through the parts of the Doxygen
documentation which seem like they would be most apropos.

What I did not discover was any functions or examples of what I assumed
I would be needing to do, which essential would be to process the audio
frames of the FrontLeft [FL]  and FrontRight [FR] channels of coming out
of a stream of packets.  That caused me to think that perhaps I would
find examples of that processing by searching the Audacity sources to
learn when and how they use the ffmpeg libraries.  And somewhere between
the Audacity and FFmpeg sites I stumbled upon some sources and some
documentation concerning what I suppose are two reasonable libraries
devoted to "resampling" -- soxr and swr.

It was about at that point that I concluded that my modification of the
sampled frames probably does not fall within the ambit of what is meant
by resampling at all and that led to an investigation of what Nyquist
was all about.  Wow, what a guy Mr. Dannenberg must be.  The 2007
Nyquist Reference Manual is a jaw-dropping read.

I think that is enough background/context.  Here's were I would
appreciate any suggestions:

A.  Would it be possible to accomplish the steps necessary to achieve
the desired result just using ffmpeg.exe?  I imagine that, using the
command line tool and an appropriate shell scripting language, it might
be necessary to make multiple passes of the original .mp3 file and/or
the two separate channels.  I am not concerned about that loss of
throughput; it will always be far faster than any manual procedure.

B.  Nonetheless, there are some advantages that would accrue from
accomplishing the work entirely in an application .exe with a little GUI
glitter to help the user be able to attempt some trial-and-error
[preview] with slight changes in some of the parameters of the task
depending upon the nature of the audio content and the manner in which
the user will eventually play the output on different devices in
different environments.  Since I will not have the capabilities for
building an Envelope in the manner that Nyquist [Lisp] accomplishes
that, can anyone point me to any sample code doing that in C with the
eight ffmpeg .dll libraries?

C.  Or -- and I appreciate that it is not fair to ask this of this mail
group -- but I would appreciate any experience/advice as to whether the
solution really ought to be accomplished by some scripting and/or macro
facilities wrapped around Audacity?

Thank you so much for the fantastic capabilities you have provided with
the entire FFmpeg effort and for your patience in reading through my
questions as the bell is about to strike on the New Year.

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