[Flac-dev] Variable Bit Rate

Tyler Eaves tylere at gmail.com
Mon May 23 10:37:19 PDT 2011


FLAC is variable bitrate, but the bitrate is determined by how
efficiently the data can be compressed while maintaining 100% data
integrity.

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Dennis Brunnenmeyer
<dennisb at chronometrics.com> wrote:
> Is FLAC a variable bit rate format when streamed? If so, how can it be truly
> lossless?
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