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 _______________________________________________ libav-tools mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-tools
