[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] flac demuxer

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Sat May 3 01:44:49 CEST 2008


On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:04:30PM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
> matthieu castet wrote:
> > AFAIK there is a similar problem with alac and maybe other audio codec.
> > If you decompress luckynight.m4a, it will be shorter than 
> > luckynight.wav.bz2.
> 
> I've always wondered how lossless audio compressors cope with the fact
> that there is only a 1 in FRAMESIZE probability that the total number of
> input frames will be evenly divisible by FRAMESIZE.

Its not really specific to lossless, lossy audio codecs (except *DPCM) also
tend to have a (few) fixed frame sizes.


> 
> Suddenly, it becomes clear why nearly every lossless audio compressor
> feels that it needs a custom container.

huh? If the codec bitstream supports a smaller last frame the container
wont make it bigger or make it dissapear.


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