[flac-dev] Support for ultra-high sample rates?

[Adam Sampson]

Tor-Einar Jarnbjo <tor-einar at jarnbjo.name> writes:

> Does it make sense to use FLAC to compress arbitrary analog data at
> very high sample rates as opposed to other general purpose compression
> algorithms?

As a data point on this, the ld-decode project uses FLAC to compress
40MHz samples of LaserDisc RF, which are a combination of FM composite
video, FM audio and CD-style EFM digital audio.

FLAC gets much better compression ratios than general-purpose
compression algorithms (typically about 55% the size of the 10-bit raw
input), and has the advantage that you can directly use audio tools for
visualising and manipulating samples.

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Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>