[flac-dev] flac-dev Digest, Vol 91, Issue 4

[Dennis Brunnenmeyer]

Perhaps update the codec to handle 32 bit files while remaining the same 
otherwise?

Dennis Brunnenmeyer
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On 6/19/2012 12:00 PM, flac-dev-request at xiph.org wrote:
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> From: James Haigh<james.r.haigh at gmail.com>
> Subject: [flac-dev] Next generation WebM and FLAC
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> Hello,
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> I have proposed to WebM to use FLAC in a future version. Since FLAC was
> designed a decade ago, I was wondering if there were any new compression
> techniques that FLAC could use in a new version to improve compression
> ratios.
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> If so, it would be worth synchronising with WebM for compatibility reasons.
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> Here's the WebM discussion:
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> Best regards,
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> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:18:51 -0700
> From: Ralph Giles<giles at thaumas.net>
> Subject: Re: [flac-dev] Next generation WebM and FLAC
> To: James Haigh<james.r.haigh at gmail.com>
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> On 12-06-19 10:08 AM, James Haigh wrote:
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>> I have proposed to WebM to use FLAC in a future version. Since FLAC was
>> designed a decade ago, I was wondering if there were any new compression
>> techniques that FLAC could use in a new version to improve compression
>> ratios.
> The short answer is yes, but for it to be work promoting a new standard,
> you really want to do *significantly* better than flac, like lossless at
> half the file size. That's a lot harder than an extra 10% or 20%
> compression. A great research project, in other words, but I think we'd
> do better to concentrate resources on improving support for the existing
> flac format which is very widely adopted.
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>   -r
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