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Audible plops and clicks in stereo at 24.4kbps with DTX likely due to stereo switching

There are plops and clicks in characterization item, coded with unified stereo at 24.4kbps. Looking at the spectrogram these artifacts most likely occur from switching from DFT stereo to LRTD. Plop happens at frame 1070 and click at frame 1117 both at the right channel as can be seen in the spectrogram:

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To reproduce:

/IVAS_cod -dtx -stereo 24400 48 20ms_aligned_files_concatenated.wav 20ms_aligned_files_concatenated.ivas.192
/IVAS_dec stereo 48 20ms_aligned_files_concatenated.ivas.192 20ms_aligned_files_concatenated.ivas.dec.wav

Item is shared in BOX:_EXTERNAL_IVAS_CHAR_MC/Issues/ivas-codec-issue-1406

Encoder/Decoder version is 91d6421f

Edited by fotopoulou