[vorbis-dev] lossless ogg encoding with good compression rate

[Beni Cherniavsky]

Charles Keepax wrote on 2003-06-26:

> Just to add my 2 cents, surely the difference will always be quite small
> , thus you don't need the full 16-bits for each one in the PCM file.
> i.e. say each difference could be 8-bits, thus halfing the difference
> file size. Although just a passing though and might not work in practice.
>
You can't be 100% sure, what if in one sample of million it isn't?
Bzip2 will take advantage of the values being small anyway.


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