[Flac] best string setting

Brad Leblanc brad.leblanc at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 14:14:49 PDT 2007


Level 1 uses far less compression than level 8.  In terms of compression,
the lower the "level" the less compression used (and the larger the
resulting FLAC file).

Hope that helps.

-Brad

On 7/12/07, Rick <cms0009 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I try to make it easier for you to understand,
> I do understand about lossless format, hence I installed flac,
> second, understanding the setting under the man pages is the key.
> so, I pose a question, which is:
>
> What setting uses the least amount of compression.
>
> flac --best
> or
> flac -1
>
> Richard
>
>
> On Thursday 12 July 2007 11:08:44 am Alex Jones wrote:
> > I think he might be concerned with audio quality, and doesn't quite
> > understand what "lossless" really means!
> >
> > On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 07:12 -0700, Mark Rudholm wrote:
> > > Rick wrote:
> > > > hmm, let me ask this question, another way...
> > > > which setting offer the least compression ?.
> > >
> > > Not using it at all.
> > >
> > > But why would you want that?  What's the goal here?
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-- 
- Brad
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