[Flac-dev] Non-audio applications

[Josh Coalson]

--- Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 16:56, Josh Coalson wrote:
> > I mean).  FLAC only supports 8 channels, but I would bet that
> > the compression would be a lot better if you separated the 300
> > channels stream into several streams (<=8 channels each) and
> > compressed them with FLAC.  That may not be practical for your
> > application.
> 
> Hmm, I just acquired some data that has 2 gates and 4 channels (for 8
> independent channels), and shorten still beat flac.
> 
> skiymet:/tmp>ll really*
> -rw-r--r--  1 radar  wheel  516384 Nov 20 07:43 reallyraw
> -rw-r--r--  1 radar  wheel  195712 Nov 20 07:43 reallyraw.flac-8chn
> -rw-r--r--  1 radar  wheel  193049 Nov 20 07:44 reallyraw.short.8
> 
> Weird!

Interesting, do you have a place to host these files (or
another representative small sample)?  I'd like see where
the difference is coming from.

Josh


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