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+ <!-- Fill in your name for FIRSTNAME and SURNAME. -->
+ <!ENTITY dhfirstname "<firstname>Matt</firstname>">
+ <!ENTITY dhsurname "<surname>Zimmerman</surname>">
+ <!-- Please adjust the date whenever revising the manpage. -->
+ <!ENTITY dhdate "<date>January 29, 2001</date>">
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+ <!ENTITY dhsection "<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>">
+ <!ENTITY dhemail "<email>mdz@debian.org</email>">
+ <!ENTITY dhusername "Matt Zimmerman">
+ <!ENTITY dhucpackage "<refentrytitle>FLAC</refentrytitle>">
+ <!ENTITY dhpackage "flac">
+
+ <!ENTITY debian "<productname>Debian GNU/Linux</productname>">
+ <!ENTITY gnu "<acronym>GNU</acronym>">
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+
+<refentry>
+ <docinfo>
+ <address>
+ &dhemail;
+ </address>
+ <author>
+ &dhfirstname;
+ &dhsurname;
+ </author>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2000</year>
+ <holder>&dhusername;</holder>
+ </copyright>
+ &dhdate;
+ </docinfo>
+ <refmeta>
+ &dhucpackage;
+
+ &dhsection;
+ </refmeta>
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>&dhpackage;</refname>
+
+ <refpurpose>Free Lossless Audio Coder</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>flac</command>
+
+ <arg><option><replaceable>OPTION</replaceable></option></arg>
+ <arg choice=plain><replaceable>infile</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice=plain><replaceable>outfile</replaceable></arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
+
+ <para>This manual page documents briefly the
+ <command>flac</command> command.</para>
+
+ <para>This manual page was written for the &debian;
+ distribution because the original program does not have a
+ manual page. Instead, it has documentation in HTML
+ format; see below.</para>
+
+ </refsect1>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>OPTIONS</title>
+
+ <para>A summary of options is included below. For a complete
+ description, see the HTML documentation.</para>
+
+ <refsect2>
+ <title>Generic Options</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-d</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Decode (default behavior is encode)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-t</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Test a flac encoded file (same as -d
+ except no decoded file is written)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-a</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Analyze a flac encoded file (same as -d
+ except an analysis file is written)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-s</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Silent mode (do not write runtime
+ encode/decode statistics to stdout)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--skip</option> <replaceable>samples</replaceable></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Skip the specified number of samples at the
+ beginning of the input file (can be used for both
+ encoding and decoding)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect2>
+
+ <refsect2>
+ <title>Encoding Options</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--lax</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Allow encoder to generate non-Subset
+ files</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-b</option> <replaceable>blocksize</replaceable></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Default is 1152 for -l 0, else 4608; should
+ be 192/576/1152/2304/4608 (unless --lax is
+ used)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-m</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Try mid-side coding for each frame (stereo
+ input only)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-m</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Loose mid-side coding for all frames (stereo
+ input only)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-0</option>..<option>-9</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Fastest compression..highest compression
+ (default is -6). These are synonyms for other
+ options:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-0</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Synonymous with -l 0</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-1</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Synonymous with -l 0 -M</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-2</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Synonymous with -l 0 -m -r # (# is
+ automatically determined by the block
+ size)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-3</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Reserved</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-4</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Synonymous with -l 8</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-5</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Synonymous with -l 8 -M</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-6</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Synonymous with -l 8 -m -r # (# is
+ automatically determined by the block
+ size)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-7</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Reserved</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-8</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Synonymous with -l 32 -m -r # (# is
+ automatically determined by the block
+ size)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-9</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Synonymous with -l 32 -m -e -r 99 -p
+ (very slow!)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </listitem>
+
+
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-e</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Do exhaustive model search
+ (expensive!)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-l</option> <replaceable>max_lpc_order</replaceable></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>0 => use only fixed predictors</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-p</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Do exhaustive search of LP coefficient
+ quantization (expensive!). Overrides -q</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-q</option> <replaceable>bits</replaceable></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Precision of the quantized linear-predictor
+ coefficients, 0 => let encoder decide (min is 5,
+ default is 0)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-r</option> <replaceable>level</replaceable></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Rice parameter optimization level (0..99). 0
+ => none, default is 0, above 4 doesn't usually
+ help much)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-V</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Verify a correct encoding by decoding the
+ output in parallel and comparing to the
+ original</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-m-</option> <option>-M-</option> <option>-e-</option> <option>-p-</option> <option>-V-</option> <option>--lax-</option>
+ </term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>These flags can be used to invert the sense
+ of the corresponding normal option.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </refsect2>
+ <refsect2>
+ <title>Format Options</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-fb</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Big-endian byte order</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-fl</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Little-endian byte order</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-fc</option>
+ <replaceable>channels</replaceable></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Set number of channels.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-fp</option>
+ <replaceable>bits_per_sample</replaceable></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Set bits per sample.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-fs</option>
+ <replaceable>sample_rate</replaceable></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Set sample rate (in Hz).</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-fu</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Unsigned samples (default is signed)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-fr</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Force to raw format (even if filename ends
+ in <filename>.wav</filename>).</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-fw</option></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Force to RIFF WAVE.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect2>
+
+ </refsect1>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>SEE ALSO</title>
+
+ <para>The programs are documented fully by HTML format
+ documentation, available in
+ <filename>/usr/share/doc/flac/html</filename> on
+ &debian; systems.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>AUTHOR</title>
+
+ <para>This manual page was written by &dhusername; &dhemail; for
+ the &debian; system (but may be used by others).</para>
+
+ <!-- <para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify
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+ of the license can be found under
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+
+ </refsect1>
+ </refentry>
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