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I have a doubt reg. RESIDUAL_CODING_METHOD_PARTITIONED_RICE2 http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#partitioned_rice2 tells that 5 bits are used to specify the Rice parameter. And "Escape code, meaning the partition is in unencoded binary form using n bits per sample; n follows as a 5-bit number" Question: What is the use of the "escape co...

...d later in 1.2.1, so there was a short time for >> adoption of the new decoder. It should be added to the changelog. > It's still a bit of a mystery to me what should be added. Clues? In short: FLAC 1.2.0 added the RICE2 residual coding method (http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#partitioned_rice2) to the format and the decoder, but this wasn't in the changelog. This breaks forward compatibility for 24-bit files RICE2 was added because when trying to encode a 24-bit file the residual wouldn't fit in the rice partition (sorry if I worded that wrong, I'm not sure of my math th...

Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:31:25PM +0200, Martijn van Beurden wrote: > > I don't know why this isn't on the changelog, but it is probably still a > > good idea to add it. This only breaks compatibility for 24-bit streams. > > (So: decoders older than 1.2.0 might not be able to decode 24-bit FLAC > > files made by libFLAC 1.2.0 or