[Flac] Non-consistent Size

[Josh Coalson]

--- "Rob M." <rmdiv2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have converted the same wav file with FLAC 1.1.2 on
> two different machines. Flac on these two machines was
> installed at different times (about 2 months apart)
> but the version incl all the file sizes and time
> stamps are the same so I am pretty sure it's exactly
> the same program. Despite that the two machines
> produce different results. Nevertheless, after
> converting the flac files back to wav the result on
> both machines are the same. So the question is what is
> going on here? Are the algorithms used different on
> different machines? In my case one of them is a dual
> Athlon and the other one a Pentium M. 

there are different code paths through the encoder chosen at
runtime that are optimized for different environments which can
create different streams.  nothing to worry about.

Josh


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