Re: [Flac-dev] FLAC_index

2007-09-03 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Chris Arena wrote: Christian Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess the use of unsigned index variables was an accident. Changing them back to int makes FLAC pass the thorough test suite on amd64. I was wondering why there isn't a FLAC_index (FLAC_index16 or FLAC_index32) type

[Flac] FLAC: compressing data

2007-09-03 Thread Harry Sack
hi can the flac encoder be used to compress non-wave data? So suppose I rename a data file to *.wav, can i compress it then using the flac encoder to make it smaller? just wondering if this is possible ___ Flac mailing list Flac@xiph.org

Re: [Flac] FLAC: compressing data

2007-09-03 Thread Nicholas Wilson
On Mon 3 Sep 4:04 pm Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote: can the flac encoder be used to compress non-wave data? No, it's not possible.  That's actually very silly. Actually, there is no reason it should not run on the data fine, if presented to it appropriately. Input data is a binary stream, and

Re: [Flac] FLAC: compressing data

2007-09-03 Thread Nicholas Wilson
On Mon 3 Sep 4:04 pm Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote: I think what you are looking for is 7z. Its LZMA compression can compress files more than any other format. Install 7-zip. 7-zip is good, but it cannot compress more than any other format: a general purpose algorithm like this is good for