On 06/03/2014 03:28 AM, Bob wrote:
> According to Wikipedia, FLAC only has 8 levels of compression. I thought
> this was true as I've been converting FLAC for a few years now.
> But I recently used iSonics and it offers 12 levels. When I contacted
> the developer to ask why, they told me iSonics uses libavcodec and told
> me to ask the developers.
> 
> So can someone please explain why libavcodec has 12 levels if the FLAC
> guidelines say 8?

Levels 0 to 8 use essentially the same compression settings as the
official libFLAC encoder. Put simply, levels 9 to 12 use additional or
alternative settings to achieve better compression.

-Justin
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