From e8713d27abe180f0e4782905bc7e04f4da87d310 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Coalson Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:34:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] minor change --- doc/format.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/format.html b/doc/format.html index 62daeb59..5555ac50 100644 --- a/doc/format.html +++ b/doc/format.html @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Scope

- It is a known fact that no algorithm can losslessly compress all possible input, so most compressors restrict themselves to a useful domain and try to work as well as possible within that domain. FLAC's domain is audio data. Though it can losslessly code any input, only certain kinds of input will get smaller. FLAC exploits the fact that audio data typically has a high degree of sample-to-sample correlation. + It is a known fact that no algorithm can losslessly compress all possible input, so most compressors restrict themselves to a useful domain and try to work as well as possible within that domain. FLAC's domain is audio data. Though it can losslessly code any input, only certain kinds of input will get smaller. FLAC exploits the fact that audio data typically has a high degree of sample-to-sample correlation.

Within the audio domain, there are many possible subdomains. For example: low bitrate speech, high-bitrate multi-channel music, etc. FLAC itself does not target a specific subdomain but many of the default parameters of the reference encoder are tuned to CD-quality music data (i.e. 44.1kHz, 2 channel, 16 bits per sample). The effect of the encoding parameters on different kinds of audio data will be examined later.