Re: [flac-dev] Flac compression levels?

2013-03-12 Thread Xavier Morel
On 2013-03-12, at 20:00 , Declan Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:36:29PM +0100, catch-...@masklinn.net wrote: >> >>> now is it just a coincidence, >> >> It is, testing on a >6mn piece (Endless, Nameless from Nirvana's >> Nevermind, 6:21) > > Does that track have a long period of sile

Re: [flac-dev] Flac compression levels?

2013-03-12 Thread Declan Kelly
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:36:29PM +0100, catch-...@masklinn.net wrote: > > > now is it just a coincidence, > > It is, testing on a >6mn piece (Endless, Nameless from Nirvana's > Nevermind, 6:21) Does that track have a long period of silence in the middle? (...checks Discogs...) Nope: "Endless,

Re: [flac-dev] Flac compression levels?

2013-03-12 Thread Xavier Morel
On 2013-03-12, at 12:11 , Marcus Johnson wrote: > now is it just a coincidence, > considering the test files are small It is, testing on a >6mn piece (Endless, Nameless from Nirvana's Nevermind, 6:21) using flac 1.2.1 on OSX 10.6 I get the following: 71495116 base.wav 54517574 level-0.flac 534409

Re: [flac-dev] Flac compression levels?

2013-03-12 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Marcus Johnson wrote: > So, basically compression levels 1 & 2 result in the same file size, 4-7 > also result in the same file size, now is it just a coincidence, That is the results for that particular file, a file that was already part of the FLAC test suite called "noisy-sine.wav". For anoth

[flac-dev] Flac compression levels?

2013-03-12 Thread Marcus Johnson
"Using FLAC binary : /Users/Marcus/flac/test/../src/flac/flac Original file size 441044 bytes. Compression level 1, file size 421393 bytes. Compression level 2, file size 421393 bytes. Compression level 3, file size 373613 bytes. Compression level 4, file size 369517 bytes. Compression le