[Flac-users] settings for tighter compression than -8?

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 04:40:42PM -0500, David W. Tamkin wrote:
> If processing time is not a big factor -- say, I could put up with four 
> to six times the duration of compressing at -8 -- what command-line 
> settings could one use to get even more compression?
> 
> I have a case where the FLACs encoded at -8 are about 653.3 MB, but the 
> set comes with artwork whose jpegs are 50.5 MB (I tried zipping the 
> jpegs, realizing it would do very little, and the zip file still came to 
> 50.1 MB).  Any hope of squeezing the FLAC files a little more to get the 
> total down to 703.12 MB to fit onto a CDR?  My hardware doesn't support 
> overburning, and I don't want to cut the resolution of the jpegs.

Ok, you need 0.04% improvement, that should not be a problem. Try
flac --lax -e -p -l 32 -r 10 --no-padding
and if it is not enough, increase -r up to 16.

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Miroslav Lichvar