I believe that, technically speaking, FLAC is VBR. This is because the audio is split into blocks, and each block is encoded individually, and potentially with different efficiency. Thus, the bitrate of the encoded data stream will vary over the length of the stream. This is backed up by the fact that the STREAMINFO header includes fields for minimum and maximum frame size (in bytes) - implying they're not usually the same value.
Of course the output from decoding is CBR, but then so is the output from decoding an MP3, VOB or anything else. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39573 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
