Indeed, it happens too when you re-encode to a lower compression setting, for example, using flac -2f on a file that was already encoded with flac -8f.
Maybe this check should only be used when encoding from WAV (and not from FLAC). op 31-01-14 18:12, lvqcl schreef: > Git version of the FLAC encoder prints error message: > > ERROR: Compression failed (ratio 1.xyz, should be < 1.0). Please contact the > developers. > > in the following cases: > a) recompressing from FLAC 1.2.1 (sometimes) > b) encoding very short wav files (around 5k samples) > c) encoding white noise test signal. > _______________________________________________ > flac-dev mailing list > flac-dev@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev