[Flac-dev] Incomplete format description?

[Josh Coalson]

--- Tor-Einar Jarnbjo <Tor-Einar_Jarnbjo at grosch-link.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> have I just overseen a link, or is the format description on
> http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html lacking information on how to
> actually decode the residual partitions to PCM sample data?

you are correct, it is not explicit enough.  the encoded residual
is a string of Rice codes of the form 000nnn, where 000 is a unary
portion and nnn is the binary portion of length k, k being the
rice parameter.  but there is a signed->unsigned transform before
rice coding that needs to be documented.

Josh


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