[FFmpeg-user] FLAC experience so far

[Mark Filipak]

The source: c:\01.WAV
620,398,844 bytes

ffmpeg^
  -i c:\01.WAV^
  -map 0^
  -c flac^
  "c:\Manual Goettsching [1992] E2-E4.flac.m4a"

Provoked: "Could not find tag for codec flac in stream #0, codec not currently supported in container".

ffmpeg^
  -i c:\01.WAV^
  -map 0^
  -c flac -compression_level 12^
  "c:\Manual Goettsching [1992] E2-E4.flac.mp4"
405,530,095 bytes

The above succeeded. It ran for a 3 or 4 minutes.

ffmpeg^
  -i c:\01.WAV^
  -map 0^
  -c flac^
  -compression_level 12^
  -lpc_type cholesky^
  -exact_rice_parameters 1^
  -multi_dim_quant 1^
  "c:\Manual Goettsching [1992] E2-E4.flac .mp4"

The above has been running for 43 minutes and has encoded 17 seconds of a 58 minute audio.