http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#tools__different_sizes
one example of variations: whether binary was compiled w/sse support or not (affects computation of lpc coefficients) --- On Tue, 2/9/10, Djeizon Barros <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was fiddling with FLAC executable on Linux and also > making FLAC files with foobar2000 under WINE. I was using > the same exact options for both linux native executable and > flac.exe through foobar2000. But I have noticed something: > The FLAC files themselves created from flac.exe and > flac(ELF) are not bit identical. They differ in something > (Not audio data). > > Looking at this, I used a Windows native installation to > check about this and confirmed that the flac.exe in Windows > is also creating a file that differs a little than the flac > ELF. At first glance I compared the metadata and it seemed > that metaflac returned different stream_offsets from the > seektable, comparing the same music file created with > flac-win and flac-lin. Then I removed entirely both their > tags & padding, but they still are different. > > Is this normal? Music data is absolutely untouched, > however, can this be an architecture difference between the > compilers that made the Win32 and ELF executables? Just for > the record, what is exactly making the files different? _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
