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+## Copyright (C) 1995-2012 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} lin2mu (@var{x}, @var{n})
+## Convert audio data from linear to mu-law. Mu-law values use 8-bit
+## unsigned integers. Linear values use @var{n}-bit signed integers or
+## floating point values in the range -1 @leq{} @var{x} @leq{} 1 if
+## @var{n} is 0.
+##
+## If @var{n} is not specified it defaults to 0, 8, or 16 depending on
+## the range of values in @var{x}.
+## @seealso{mu2lin, loadaudio, saveaudio}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+
+## Author: Andreas Weingessel <Andreas.Weingessel@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
+## Created: 17 October 1994
+## Adapted-By: jwe
+
+function y = lin2mu (x, n)
+
+ if (nargin == 1)
+ range = max (abs (x (:)));
+ if (range <= 1)
+ n = 0;
+ elseif (range <= 128)
+ n = 8;
+ warning ("lin2mu: no precision specified, so using %d", n);
+ else
+ n = 16;
+ endif
+ elseif (nargin == 2)
+ if (n != 0 && n != 8 && n != 16)
+ error ("lin2mu: N must be either 0, 8 or 16");
+ endif
+ else
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ ## Transform real and n-bit format to 16-bit.
+ if (n == 0)
+ ## [-1,1] -> [-32768, 32768]
+ x = 32768 * x;
+ elseif (n != 16)
+ x = 2^(16-n) .* x;
+ endif
+
+ ## Determine sign of x, set sign(0) = 1.
+ sig = sign(x) + (x == 0);
+
+ ## Take absolute value of x, but force it to be smaller than 32636;
+ ## add bias.
+ x = min (abs (x), 32635) + 132;
+
+ ## Find exponent and fraction of bineary representation.
+ [f, e] = log2 (x);
+
+ y = 64 * sig - 16 * e - fix (32 * f) + 335;
+
+endfunction