Re: technical questions about FLAC

--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Casey <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. What exactly is meant by "reference encoder"?

it's just the official encoder released by the FLAC project, vs
a third party implementation.

> 4. Why was 655,350 Hz chosen to be the maximum supported
> sample rate?  I noticed it's not a power of 2.  Also,
> this is an unimaginably fast frequency, doesn't it
> exceed the limit for most channels?

sample rate has no effect on flac encoding but it must be stored
for correct playback.  the limit is based on how the number is
stored.