Hi All,

I am designing flac decoder for an embeded aplication.The flac document gives some information about the maximum size of uncompressed size for the subset(I think present encoder support only 16384 MAX_BLOCK SIZE)(http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html ).I need to fix the maximum frame size(Compressed data) independent of streamss.


Can any one suggest,How to calculate maximum frame size before decoding



Regards,
Raghunath.K.P

Unless I'm mistaken, it is theoretically possible for the lossless compressed data to be larger than the uncompressed. Lossless compression relies on some redundancy in the data to achieve compression. If there is no redundancy then there is no compression. Hopefully nobody is going to compress random data, but theoretically that could happen.