More food for thought: a file of pure silence would actually compress to a smaller size with FLAC than with MP3, because MP3 frames have a minimum bit rate of 32Kbps, whereas FLAC's run-length-compression block type should do better. Other less obvious examples could be contrived where a lossless codec would produce smaller output than a lossy one.
As a more practical example, usually small line art graphics having only a few colors will be more compressible using (lossless) GIF than with (lossy) JPEG, because JPEG can't deal with that type of image as effectively. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44532 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
