Harry Sack
2007-Jul-11 02:42 UTC
[Flac] FLAC: compressing more with traditional compression algorithm
Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to compress encoded FLAC files even more using a traditional compression algorithm like zip, rar, ... or won't you get any smaller files using such an algorithm by applying it on the encoded FLAC files? thx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20070711/6e30ffe5/attachment.htm
Alex Jones
2007-Jul-11 06:20 UTC
[Flac] FLAC: compressing more with traditional compression algorithm
Maybe a little bit. Tag contents, for example, aren't compressed (and rightly so). But it's not going to make any serious impact on the audio data, in fact it's quite likely to end up bigger. (See the Pigeonhole Principle! [1]) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 11:40 +0200, Harry Sack wrote:> Hi, > > I was wondering if it's possible to compress encoded FLAC files even > more using a traditional compression algorithm like zip, rar, ... or > won't you get any smaller files using such an algorithm by applying it > on the encoded FLAC files? > > thx > _______________________________________________ > Flac mailing list > Flac@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-- Alex Jones http://alex.weej.com/