Re: [flac-dev] flac-dev Digest, Vol 149, Issue 5

2017-05-23 Thread Marcus Johnson
​Can you guys clarify that by Rice you don't mean unary coding, but exponential golomb coding? that issue has confused me before, and probably others.​ ___ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [flac-dev] flac-dev Digest, Vol 149, Issue 5

2017-05-23 Thread Federico Miyara
Marcus, The code used in flac is a Golomb-Rice code. As flac codes residuals (errors) after estimating the signal with a suitable model obtained during coding, the code is chosen because it requires less bits for smaller residuals and more bits for larger residuals. This works because small