On 7 February 2012 21:59, Martijn van Beurden <[email protected]> wrote:
> AFAIK, FLAC uses a fixed block length so block boundaries are just put > somewhere a block ends. Flake, another FLAC-encoders can use variable > block length and has a algorithm to decide the length, but this is > outside of the -0 to -8 presets, as these are all fixed block length. Aha. Thanks for clarifying. I just saw the reference to variable-length blocks in the format document. How much does the variable-block mode improve compression? -r _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
