On 02/08/2012 11:49 AM, Ralph Giles wrote: > 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?
0.5% to 1.0% on average. That's with a fairly simple algorithm. -Justin _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
