Timeline for FFmpeg - Changing audio bitrate of the output FLAC file
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| Apr 13, 2023 at 3:14 | comment | added | Nikita Kipriyanov | "Setting a bitrate" of a lossy codec assumes it is subject to the same input. What you're doing by transcoding is changing the input, which is not allowed. You don't compress the same thing, therefore the results are incomparable and can't count as "changing bitrate of a codec", and it would be that way even if we were discussing a lossy codec. The only possible valid answer to the real question (behind the statement) is: there could be no possibility to set bitrate of a lossless codec, it will always be as large as it takes to store the original data exactly. | |
| Apr 12, 2023 at 21:27 | comment | added | kubinka0505 | @NikitaKipriyanov Yes, but the question was about changing the bitrate of the output FLAC file - transcoding is the only technical way to reduce it, because - as stated - the bitrate of the FLAC file is inherited from the input file - which is assumed to be lossless. | |
| Jan 18, 2023 at 18:28 | comment | added | Nikita Kipriyanov | This is pointless and nonsensical. Yes, when content changes the compression could change too, nobody is disputing this. You can not only convert to OGG to change content, for instance, convert to MP3, AAC, equalize it, denoise it, add a reverb, etc., the compression will change because the content changes. But the whole point of FLAC is that the content does not change; this idea is to compress as much as possible under the restriction that the decompressed data will be bit by bit exactly as it was in the original. Your ogg (vorbis) conversion breaks this core restriction. | |
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| S Jan 18, 2023 at 17:59 | history | answered | kubinka0505 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |