[Vorbis-dev] Multi-channel with empty channels.

[Oliver Thuns]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:54 AM, e deleflie<edeleflie at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> Lets say I have a 16 channel file, but 10 of those channels are empty
> (all values are 0).
>
> For a) the vorbis codec and also b) the FLAC codec ... would the size
> of the file be close to (or practically the same as) the size of a 6
> channel file?

yes, if it's digital silence, the encode is very close to the 6
channel file in size. Though I don't know how big the differences in
CPU cycles is (if the Vorbis codec is more efficient on digital
silence than it is on average content).

FLAC doesn't support 16 channels.