On 9/3/07, Harry Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can the flac encoder be used to compress non-wave data?
It's actually PCM, not "wave data". I think you need to read on PCM on Wikipedia to understand that no, it's not possible. > So suppose I rename > a data file to *.wav, can i compress it then using the flac encoder to make > it smaller? > just wondering if this is possible No, it's not possible. That's actually very silly. File extensions are not an important thing outside the Windows world. Most applications read some initial data of a file and know what it actually is. In this case, the encoder would understand it would not be dealing with PCM data and not even try to attempt doing such a silly thing. I think what you are looking for is 7z. Its LZMA compression can compress files more than any other format. Install 7-zip. -Ivo _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac
