2007/5/14, Josh Coalson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
--- Harry Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > i was wondering if it's possible to tell me what the theoretical best > compression ratio the flac encoder can do, because i was wondering > what the future of flac will bring us. So this question is probably > best addressed to Josh: can we suspect much better compression ratio > in the future or is the encoder already at his *almost* peak > compression level. I think you're talking about average compression ratio because it depends on the particular sample. to make significant improvements (>3%) would require changes to the format that wouldn't work with older decoders, which I don't plan on ever doing.
i think that's a very good decision! if you look at the comparison here:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html you will see that FLAC is already within 3-4% of the most aggresive codecs.
so in the future we can expect mostly speed improvements for encoder/decoder? Thanks Josh
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