On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:04:40AM -0500, David W. Tamkin wrote: > Josh suggested to Chris: > > > flac --super-secret-totally-impractical-compression-level > > Now it's not a secret any more! (OK, to those who can read the code, it > never was.) > > >No joke, > > The existence of the option isn't, but its performance pretty much is, > as Josh admitted: > > >... but you will soon find out that it is not worth it and will go > >back to -8. The -# options are already well tuned for CD audio. > > No kidding. I asked almost the identical question several months ago, > and a member here [whose name I am embarrassed to forget -- first name > might have been Miroslav?] suggested pretty much the same options as > those to which --super-secret-totally-impractical-compression-level > expands (just a different second value for -r).
I just wanted to keep the secret. :) > Many of the .wavs did > not compress as well as they had at plain old -8. I think it is caused by estimating (not very accurate) of rice bits. This DONT_ESTIMATE_RICE_BITS define in stream_encoder caused problems when i was playing with bonk residual coding, real results were poor. -- Miroslav Lichvar ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flac-dev
