<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/5/14, Josh Coalson <<a href="mailto:xflac@yahoo.com">xflac@yahoo.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
--- Harry Sack <<a href="mailto:tranzedude@gmail.com">tranzedude@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> hi<br>><br>> i was wondering if it's possible to tell me what the theoretical best<br>> compression ratio the flac encoder can do, because i was wondering
<br>> what the future of flac will bring us. So this question is probably<br>> best addressed to Josh: can we suspect much better compression ratio<br>> in the future or is the encoder already at his *almost* peak
<br>> compression level.<br><br>I think you're talking about average compression ratio because it<br>depends on the particular sample. to make significant improvements<br>(>3%) would require changes to the format that wouldn't work with
<br>older decoders, which I don't plan on ever doing.</blockquote><div><br><br>i think that's a very good decision! <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
if you look at the comparison here:<br> <a href="http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html">http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html</a><br>you will see that FLAC is already within 3-4% of the most aggresive<br>codecs.
</blockquote><div><br><br>so in the future we can expect mostly speed improvements for encoder/decoder?<br><br>Thanks <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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