[Flac-users] Settings to get the best compression

[Josh Coalson]

--- "Chuck H. Zhao" <chuck.h.zhao at sadbhuja.com> wrote:
> 
> >No joke, but you will soon find out that it is not worth it
> >and will go back to -8.  The -# options are already well tuned
> >for CD audio.  If you are not encoding CD audio then reply
> >back with the resolution and sample rate and we can go over
> >it more.
> 
> If I need to encode 48khz, 16-bit, mono, do any of the default
> settings 
> need to be changed?  Thanks.

on a representative test clip, try experimenting with different
block sizes.  I would suggest

flac -8 -b 2304
flac -8 -b 4608
flac -8 -b 8192

if you find more than 1-2% difference in resulting size let us
know, maybe there's some way to improve the default settings in
this case.

Josh


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