balrogg: lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor

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balrogg losslessly recompresses Ogg Vorbis and Opus files. Archives are typically 8-12% smaller than .ogg files and 3-8% smaller than .opus files. After decompression they are reconstructed identically.

The source code (GPLv3) and binaries are available here: https://github.com/iczelia/balrogg.

Hopefully some find this useful. The Windows binaries are attached to the thread (64-bit, 32-bit modern Windows, 32-bit Windows 95 and newer).

[kj911]

Very good work!

In the case of the OGG container format, 5 different encoding profiles were tested (see sample files, description), where in the case of small >30s sample files, it processed the files flawlessly, while on a ~2 hour test file (different source material), it only partially succeeded, with various error messages or endless encoding loops. The memory usage was always between ~200,000KB and ~270,000KB, slowly increasing, over and over again, without writing an output file. Compared to OGGRE, it consumes 2-3-4* more memory, but often with better results. It also brought more than 10% size reduction on the tested OPUS file.