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Is FLAC a variable bit rate format when streamed? If so, how can it be truly lossless? -- Dennis Brunnenmeyer Director of Engineering CEDAR RIDGE SYSTEMS 15019 Rattlesnake Road Grass Valley, CA 95945-8710 Office: 1 (530) 477-9015 Mobile: 1 (530) 320-9025 eMail: dennisb /at/ chronometrics /dot/ com http://www.chronometrics.com/crs/index.html <http://www.chronometrics.com/crs/index.html>

...deos really need any editing other than specifying time period I want (mplayer does that), so for this occasional use, a live linux DVD really probably is the best solution. The purpose is to make short theora clips available on my field herpetology web site via the html5 video tag (IE clips of Rattlesnakes buzzing while fleeing to their hide or toads spawning, etc.). I really would much rather use Ogg/Theora than something proprietary like DivX or other currently available options.

James Haigh <james.r.haigh at gmail.com> > Note that 50% is silly, lossless compression is asymptotic. I 2nd Martin, > once you have high-density entropy, there's little more 'air' to > squeeze-out. 10-20% would be worth it if it helps adoption, although it's > worth studying how close we already are to the asymptote of entropy. How > much would be saved? How

Brian... You've been both polite and helpful. Thanks. I do understand the dimensional nature of images and sound, though I admittedly glossed over the details while trying to draw attention to time rather than spatial artifacts. What I was looking for was confirmation that a properly designed application would decode FLAC without temporal issues. I believe you've made that perfectly

I'm well aware how compression works. But images and document files do not depend on the relative timing of the data to reproduce themselves. They are in essence only two-dimensional in space, whereas the data in a sound file is time-dependent. The question really has more to do with the decoded FLAC stream output, which I presume is a linear PCM file, e.g. WAV. If FLAC is lossless and

Hi... Is there any possibility of including a PDF file (A complete set of liner notes in a single multi-page document, for example.) in a FLAC file? If so, what needs to be done, if anything, to do so? Dennis... -- Dennis Brunnenmeyer Director of Engineering CEDAR RIDGE SYSTEMS 15019 Rattlesnake Road Grass Valley, CA 95945-8710 Office: 1 (530) 477-9015 Mobile: 1 (530) 320-9025 eMail:

FLAC is variable bitrate, but the bitrate is determined by how efficiently the data can be compressed while maintaining 100% data integrity. On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Dennis Brunnenmeyer <dennisb at chronometrics.com> wrote: > Is FLAC a variable bit rate format when streamed? If so, how can it be truly > lossless? > -- > > Dennis Brunnenmeyer > Director of