th00ht wrote:
> Having said that I don't undersand why there is a quality setting
> (--best) on FLAC. It is either lossless or it is not.
Its there for users used to MP3
the documentation clearly says:
-8, --compression-level-8, --best
Synonymous with -l 12 -b 4608 -m -e -r 6
Compression level in flac is not at all comparable to quality in mp3 or
other lossy schemes.
What it really means is how hard should the compressor try to squeeze
the last little bit of size out, by trying alternative encodings. It
means that the compressor will run far longer and perhaps squeeze a
percent or two smaller size.
Flac is designed to be easy to decode, at the expense of longer
encoding/compression passes. Because most folks compress one and listen
many times.
--
Pat Farrell
http://www.pfarrell.com/
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