Re: [Flac] FLAC: compressing data

2007-09-03 Thread Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
On 9/3/07, Nicholas Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 7z is good, but it cannot compress more than any other format: a general > purpose algorithm like this is good for most things I'm aware of that. I should have added the word "general" in "other formats" to make the meaning more clear. > A

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 mo

Re: [Flac] FLAC: compressing data

2007-09-03 Thread Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
On 9/3/07, Nicholas Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I checked this on a pdf file: > > flac --force-raw-format --endian=little --channels=2 --bps=24 > --sample-rate=24000 --sign=unsigned > Arsene\ Lupin\ contre\ Herlock\ Sholmes.pdf > > flac -d --force-raw-format --endian=little --sign=unsigned

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, an

Re: [Flac] FLAC: compressing data

2007-09-03 Thread Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
On 9/3/07, Harry Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can the flac encoder be used to compress non-wave data? It's actually PCM, not "wave data". I think you need to read on PCM on Wikipedia to understand that no, it's not possible. > So suppose I rename > a data file to *.wav, can i compress it th

[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 http://lists.xip