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2011 May 23
5
Variable Bit Rate
Is FLAC a variable bit rate format when streamed? If so, how can it be
truly lossless?
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2011 May 23
3
Variable Bit Rate
...048576 bytes). A good PNG compressor can get it to 200 bytes (this is not a typo: I have a completely white 1024*1024 PNG file in 222 bytes).
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> Well it's the same with sound (a 5mn track with no sound whatsoever contains less information than "Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen"). That's also why the format can't help but be VBR: different pieces of sound contain different amounts of information per second, and therefore have different compression ratio (and compression ratios can --- very rarely --- go above even 1: white noise is completely incompressible,...