#7615 closed feature request (outdated)
TOOLS (compress_queen): add --best to FLAC parameters
| Reported by: | SF/clemty | Owned by: | fingolfin |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Tools |
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| Cc: | Game: |
Description
using current svn tools with flac 1.2.1 on Win32
flac has a switch "--best" which creates smallest possible files
currently the ScummVM tools (at least compress_queen) do not set this; the difference for FOTAQ English is ~2mb:
97.636.137 queen.1c (--best) 99.633.565 queen.1c (default settings)
I believe this option should be set; the additional time it takes to compress the files is in my opinion negligible on current hardware
not sure if this affects other tools as well
Ticket imported from: #1873131. Ticket imported from: feature-requests/431.
Change History (9)
comment:1 by , 17 years ago
comment:2 by , 17 years ago
Now the branch is merged. Does it work? Is it enough or you wanted to propose --best as the default setting?
comment:3 by , 17 years ago
yes, I meant setting --best as default setting - I could achieve the results I posted in the original tracker item without recompiling (just setting it manually via cmdline was enough) - but usually endusers don't bother fiddling with the settings
sorry if my post was ambiguous in that aspect
comment:4 by , 17 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Resolution: | → outdated |
| Status: | new → closed |
comment:5 by , 17 years ago
Actually, we already use compression level 8 as default, which is equivalent to --best. So, this FR is redundant, it seems ;-)
comment:6 by , 17 years ago
how can this request be redundant if I get two different results with default settings and manually setting --best?
comment:7 by , 17 years ago
Did you actually retest with the latest version of the tools? Because compress_queen used to *not* use our common compression framework, so it did indeed not default to compression level 8. But the current compress_queen *does* do that. In fact there the "--best" option is equivalent to the default settings.
There is only one thing we modify with regards to the usual --best parameter to flac: Namely, we change the blocksize from 4608 to 1152. This *might* make a difference, you could try it via the "-b" option. I am not quite sure why we change the default blocksize, actually... Maybe that changed in some FLAC version.
comment:9 by , 6 years ago
| Component: | → Tools |
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Side note: This is already possible in the gsoc2007-toolsgui branch. We should merge it RSN!