Re: [Flac-dev] 32-bit float?

2007-04-22 Thread Brian Willoughby
. Ogg-FLAC would not be able to handle 32-bit float, and probably won't handle 32-bit integer until some new software is written. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Apr 22, 2007, at 12:16, Ken Restivo wrote: I notice that FLAC can't handle broadcast WAV's in IEEE float format

Re: [Flac-dev] FLAC__stream_decoder_process_single and FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_END_OF_STREAM

2007-07-25 Thread Brian Willoughby
blocks or stop, regardless of whether or not there was an error ... the API is providing a return code that tells you whether the stream is good or bad, with no indication of whether or not the stream has ended. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Jul 25, 2007, at 01:42, Erik de Castro

Re: [Flac-dev] building flac 1.2.0 on OS X

2007-07-25 Thread Brian Willoughby
Did you build and install libOgg first? What is the output of ./configure before you run make? Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Jul 25, 2007, at 14:45, Scott C. Brown 02 wrote: I just tried to build 1.2 on my Macbook i ran configure with the following arguments (like i have in the past

[Flac-dev] Re: multiple core support

2007-09-06 Thread Brian Willoughby
it down)! 2007/9/7, Brian Willoughby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any software which supports multiple processors must be multi- threaded. The process of designing multi-threaded code adds complexity to the software, so there must be a good reason to go through all the trouble. The procedure for decoding

Re: [Flac-dev] Re: multiple core support

2007-09-08 Thread Brian Willoughby
Harry, You assume that the only way to use FLAC is the way that you are using it, by converting one file format to another. That's not the only way to use FLAC. The most important uses of FLAC are for internet streaming radio or hand-held digital audio players. Both of these prominent

Re: [Flac-dev] Support .cda as input files

2007-09-13 Thread Brian Willoughby
the raw CDDA data to a file - they are not to be confused with the original. The FLAC command-line conversion utility supports raw input, which is the closest thing to regular audio CD format that you can get. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Sep 13, 2007, at 12:08, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote

Re: [Flac-dev] Support .cda as input files

2007-09-13 Thread Brian Willoughby
, and aiff. That's quite a lot considering. Most simple users are going to use a GUI app anyway, so your suggestions are better presented to the authors of those GUI programs. Many of them do support additional formats. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Sep 13, 2007, at 12:41, Daniel

Re: [Flac-dev] Support .cda as input files

2007-09-13 Thread Brian Willoughby
it will help the basic users. I believe that this list is focused on the low-level FLAC source code - the stuff that's open source like the API and the command-line utilities. The easy-to-use programs are developed and maintained by others. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Sep 13, 2007

[Flac-dev] OT - DVD vs. CD

2007-09-18 Thread Brian Willoughby
. I believe that SACD is also a contiguous spiral of data, but in a different format than CDDA. As far as I know, it is not file based, but is stream based, even on the media itself (apart from low-level blocks for error correction and seeking). Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Sep 13

Re: [Flac-dev] FLAC codec in OS X Leopard

2007-11-14 Thread Brian Willoughby
solution out there which converts the entire file in memory - but that is useless for me when many of my FLAC files are 1 to 3 hours in length. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting P.S. I do not want to discourage you, Stephen. I am merely stating my opinion that we need native FLAC support

[Flac-dev] Request for Intel build of flac on Mac OS X (with ogg)

2007-11-14 Thread Brian Willoughby
libogg installed before you do your build. To accomplish this, either download libogg 1.1.3 and install it yourself, or just grab my previous Mac Universal Installer, which has a subpackage for libogg. Thanks in advance for any help. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting

[Flac-dev] Re: Request for Intel build of flac on Mac OS X (with ogg)

2007-11-15 Thread Brian Willoughby
Thanks folks, I have an Intel build already! On Nov 15, 2007, at 03:58, Rippit the Ogg Frog wrote: I can do it, but possibly not till Friday evening. I'll do it today if I do get some free time. Mike Crawford aka Rippit the Ogg Frog Brian Willoughby wrote: I'm putting together a Universal

Re: [Flac-dev] wav to flac corruption

2008-02-05 Thread Brian Willoughby
a new program, maybe called flacsplit, to do this, because wavsplit will not work on FLAC (unless they parse the FLAC format correctly as well as WAV). I hope some of this information helps. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Feb 5, 2008, at 16:54, Matthew Davis wrote: I'm attempting

Re: [Flac-dev] wav to flac corruption

2008-02-06 Thread Brian Willoughby
support long 24-bit files. It seems that you need to replace your player if it cannot handle large 24-bit files. You don't want to reduce the quality of your source or abandon lossless coding just because the players are buggy! Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Feb 6, 2008, at 13:57

Re: [Flac-dev] flac/metaflac 32/64 Universal OS X builds

2008-05-05 Thread Brian Willoughby
for PPC on Intel? If you're willing to do the manual lipo steps, is that all you need to do to make a UB? ... or do you actually need both an Intel Mac and a PowerPC Mac? Thanks for the report. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On May 5, 2008, at 16:38, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Brian

Re: [Flac-dev] Proof-of-concept multithreaded FLAC encoder

2008-05-06 Thread Brian Willoughby
to have a parallel file- or block- based API. It would be more effort to maintain, but there is a gain for the added work, now that multiple processors is more common, even on laptops. The flac-mt command-line also seems like a good idea. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On May 6, 2008, at 11

Re: [Flac-dev] Flac-dev Digest, Vol 45, Issue 2

2008-05-08 Thread Brian Willoughby
There's a problem with Intel's TBB package: It won't run on PowerPC or other processors. On May 6, 2008, at 21:41, Frederick Akalin wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Christopher Peplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Along the same line as Frederick, myself and another university student

Re: [Flac-dev] Flac-dev Digest, Vol 45, Issue 4

2008-05-08 Thread Brian Willoughby
for the FLAC Developer community to cooperate on the extension. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [Flac-dev] Support for CAF in flac command-line?

2008-10-12 Thread Brian Willoughby
for the comments, and be sure to keep us informed if you do anything. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Oct 12, 2008, at 21:25, Michael Crawford wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Brian Willoughby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone here potentially up to the task of adding support for CAF

Re: [Flac-dev] Support for CAF in flac command-line?

2008-10-13 Thread Brian Willoughby
platforms. Hopefully, the existence of libsndfile support for CAF shows that the format is open. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Oct 12, 2008, at 22:27, Michael Crawford wrote: My hunch is that Apple does not want to encumber the format, but I'll let their public documents speak for them

Re: [Flac-dev] Support for CAF in flac command-line?

2008-10-13 Thread Brian Willoughby
that there is no substitute for CAF. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Oct 13, 2008, at 08:59, Martin Leese wrote: Brian Willoughby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Is anyone here potentially up to the task of adding support for CAF (the CoreAudio Format) into the flac command-line? ... I've already made

Re: [Flac-dev] FLAC Test files

2008-11-02 Thread Brian Willoughby
audio files in AIFF or WAV format, and then convert them to flac for your testing purposes. AIFF allows for multiple channels, although I have not tested whether it is a simple matter to convert to FLAC from multichannel files. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Nov 2, 2008, at 00:29, Daniel

Re: [Flac-dev] Possible (bug) in winamp in_flac.dll decoder

2008-12-10 Thread Brian Willoughby
with more success. It is often the case that the kinds of bugs you're seeing have nothing to do with the library, and everything to do with the calling application or plugin. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Dec 10, 2008, at 11:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure

Re: [Flac-dev] FLAC support for Android?

2009-02-23 Thread Brian Willoughby
. Good luck. When you get to specific questions, I'm sure you'll find some help from this list. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Feb 23, 2009, at 14:21, Ben McCann wrote: I was wondering if anyone here had thought about FLAC support on the Android. It would be great for FLAC adoption

Re: [Flac-dev] FLAC support for Android?

2009-02-23 Thread Brian Willoughby
Conrad: Ben's original email had a link embedded, but it was lost when you quoted the plain text. If this works, I will put the expanded link here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1461 Brian On Feb 23, 2009, at 17:01, Conrad Parker wrote: 2009/2/24 Ben McCann

Re: [Flac-dev] FLAC support for Android?

2009-02-25 Thread Brian Willoughby
(and then I'll have to eat my words). Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Feb 25, 2009, at 08:25, Dave Chapman wrote: Cristian Adam wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Brian Willoughby bri...@sounds.wa.comwrote: A better suggestion might be to start with libFLAC, optimize as needed

Re: [Flac-dev] FLAC 1.2.1 on OS X 10.4.11

2009-08-05 Thread Brian Willoughby
Have you tried the installer? flac-1.2.1.dmg That was built and tested on 10.4.11, and still runs. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Aug 5, 2009, at 03:47, Sciss wrote: according to the FAQ flac supports multichannel formats. i had no luck with 1.1.4 though ( Untitled.aif: ERROR

Re: [Flac-dev] floating point

2009-08-07 Thread Brian Willoughby
. An interesting side effect of this is that flac is able to compress this much more than regular white noise because of the 12 dB reduction. I only mention this because it is instructive about how the amplitude of the audio input affects flac's compression performance. Brian Willoughby Sound

Re: [Flac-dev] floating point

2009-08-08 Thread Brian Willoughby
On Aug 7, 2009, at 20:58, Martin Leese wrote: Didier Dambrin di...@skynet.be wrote: ... I like FLAC on the paper because of its metadata preservation, in that riff tag, which is critical for my needs. Try using WavPack, http://www.wavpack.com/ This can losslessly compress 32-bit

Re: [Flac-dev] floating point

2009-08-08 Thread Brian Willoughby
the residual. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [Flac-dev] alternate compression

2009-08-09 Thread Brian Willoughby
with lossless compression of the difference between the lossy version and the original. If there isn't then I'll just patent that... Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [Flac-dev] Flac and lyrics

2009-08-31 Thread Brian Willoughby
other audio file formats support lyrics? Where can we see documentation for the existing formats? It might be helpful to look at the better designs which have come before. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Aug 31, 2009, at 14:53, Jérôme COUDERC wrote: I haven't seen any information

Re: [Flac-dev] (Universal) Ambisonic implementation

2009-09-21 Thread Brian Willoughby
to register an application code and develop your own format for the added data. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [Flac-dev] (Universal) Ambisonic implementation

2009-09-21 Thread Brian Willoughby
to? Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Sep 21, 2009, at 15:04, Martin Leese wrote: e deleflie edelef...@gmail.com ... ok, I do realise that the extending the maximum channel count may be difficult ... there's gotta be a way to do it though. Perhaps a comparison of the FLAC structure

Re: [Flac-dev] (Universal) Ambisonic implementation

2009-10-04 Thread Brian Willoughby
ambison channels into the flac streams is left open, but higher orders are increasingly difficult to record and therfore are increasingly rare. Forth and higher level may be a purely theoretical concern. This also makes sense. Perhaps you should write up an official recommendation! Brian Willoughby

Re: [Flac-dev] Detecting FLAC file type

2009-10-06 Thread Brian Willoughby
never looked into this myself, but you do have more options with open-source API than you do with other API. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Oct 6, 2009, at 13:11, Shayne Wissler wrote: I know there is a fLaC at the beginning of the FLAC file, and I can easily look for that, but my design

Re: [Flac-dev] Win32 and ELF created files are different

2010-02-09 Thread Brian Willoughby
. At least this is my understanding of the technology. Amazing, isn't it! Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [Flac-dev] How do you set the Application ID value in an an Application Metadata Block?

2010-04-23 Thread Brian Willoughby
break everything. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Apr 21, 2010, at 12:50, Chris Angelli wrote: I have written an application that uses the FLAC C API to insert an application metadata block into a FLAC file. Everything appears to be working, but I have one nagging issue. I have used

[Flac-dev] 'Wasted bits-per-sample' flag

2010-04-26 Thread Brian Willoughby
if there are no FLAC files with this flag set. Again, most of the above is conjecture. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Apr 26, 2010, at 16:02, Fernando Alberto Marengo Rodriguez wrote: I am currently investigating about the FLAC format and one thing I can't understand is the WASTED BITS PER SAMPLE flag

Re: [Flac-dev] (no subject)

2010-05-06 Thread Brian Willoughby
There is a user-oriented mailing list as a sister to this developer- oriented mailing list. You'll find it at f...@xiph.org On May 6, 2010, at 02:34, Laura wrote: I'm sorry if this isn't the place to ask this question, but I was unable to find any other form of contact on the FLAC website.

Re: [Flac-dev] FLAC StreamInfo Parsing

2010-06-22 Thread Brian Willoughby
should have plenty of memory in your program. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [Flac-dev] FLAC StreamInfo Parsing

2010-06-22 Thread Brian Willoughby
to map the exact stream structure into a literal C struct. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [Flac-dev] FLAC StreamInfo Parsing

2010-06-22 Thread Brian Willoughby
Oops. I proofread my email a little too late. I corrected the example. Hopefully what I am suggesting is clear. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Jun 22, 2010, at 22:15, Brian Willoughby wrote: What you need to do is write a bitStream function. It should only read each byte from

Re: [Flac-dev] Compiling in Xcode

2010-07-21 Thread Brian Willoughby
package that is available via links at flac.sourceforge.net Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [Flac-dev] Compiling in Xcode

2010-07-22 Thread Brian Willoughby
, but ran out of time. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Jul 21, 2010, at 06:46, Dmitry Kichenko wrote: On 2010-07-21, at 2:24 AM, Brian Willoughby bri...@sounds.wa.com wrote: The flac sources are distributed in a configuration that is designed primarily for building from the command-line

Re: [Flac-dev] Bugfix release?

2010-07-23 Thread Brian Willoughby
to stereo FLAC, simplifying my archival process. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Jul 22, 2010, at 23:33, grarpamp wrote: Hi. It has been some time since I posted to the list, and may be some time in the future until I have an oppurtunity to revisit FLAC. So, as I have been quite satisfied

Re: [Flac-dev] Cue sheets/Tagging question

2010-11-10 Thread Brian Willoughby
On Nov 10, 2010, at 12:14, Neil Wilkes wrote: Is it possible to place track markers that will be reflected in a cue sheet within a long FLAC file? I have a label who want to offer FLAC downloads of complete albums - but there have to be track points designated within the FLAC file How

Re: [Flac-dev] Cue sheets/Tagging question

2010-11-11 Thread Brian Willoughby
a --seekpoint= marker for each track. Sometimes you really need to take the time to read everything available to you, especially when you have been waiting for months for someone else to read it to you. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Nov 11, 2010, at 01:44, Neil Wilkes wrote: I still

Re: [Flac-dev] Idea to possibly improve flac?

2011-01-07 Thread Brian Willoughby
format, and thus I doubt there would be any professional interest in changing things just for the sake of change or newness. Brian Willoughby Sound Consultinf On Jan 7, 2011, at 12:56, David Richards wrote: Its really sad to hear thats happening but even more sad is the fact that flac is becoming

Re: [Flac-dev] Synchronizing a streaming client to the server Was: Idea to possibly improve flac?

2011-01-07 Thread Brian Willoughby
there probably isn't enough silence to handle it that seldom. But a fraction of a second between tracks several times per hour would never be noticed, unless there is a continuous audio broadcast with absolutely no silence. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting

Re: [Flac-dev] Idea to possibly improve flac?

2011-01-07 Thread Brian Willoughby
! Keep us posted with your findings! Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [Flac-dev] Synchronizing a streaming client to the server Was: Idea to possibly improve flac?

2011-01-07 Thread Brian Willoughby
On Jan 7, 2011, at 17:18, Paul Davis wrote: On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Brian Willoughby bri...@sounds.wa.com wrote: I'd like to borrow these ideas, or at least similarly-inspired ideas, and have FLAC streaming designed such that the stream can tell the playback software when to reset

Re: [Flac-dev] Synchronizing a streaming client to the server Was: Idea to possibly improve flac?

2011-01-07 Thread Brian Willoughby
and OggFLAC should not have any real problems due to compression of silent frames. Any place there is a problem should be blamed on bad streaming client / player code, not on the format itself. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ Flac-dev mailing list

Re: [Flac-dev] Synchronizing a streaming client to the server Was: Idea to possibly improve flac?

2011-01-07 Thread Brian Willoughby
of the picture? i.e., what about just using pure FLAC and IP? Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Jan 7, 2011, at 20:49, David Richards wrote: The actual non made up number for 44100 is 23 seconds. :D 4096 samples, 254 packets in an ogg page. ___ Flac-dev

Re: [Flac-dev] Synchronizing a streaming client to the server Was: Idea to possibly improve flac?

2011-01-08 Thread Brian Willoughby
delay between my HDTV set tuner and computer USB tuner, since each has a different amount of buffering in its pipeline, exacerbated by the digital audio system. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http

[Flac-dev] FLAC__stream_decoder_skip_single_frame() // how is it used?

2011-03-05 Thread Brian Willoughby
situation. I'm certainly planning to read the format and API documentation thoroughly. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting P.S. My desired application is to take so-called 'hidden' tracks from a CD and split them into two files by dropping the silence in between. It's fairly common to have

Re: [Flac-dev] Support for CAF in flac command-line?

2011-03-07 Thread Brian Willoughby
On Mar 7, 2011, at 08:46, Paul Davis wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Brian Willoughby bri...@sounds.wa.com wrote: All professional tools use conversion factors such as 0x8000 for float-to-int and int-to-float because it has a single significant bit, and thus this factor does

Re: [Flac-dev] 24 bit flac decoding efficiency

2011-04-11 Thread Brian Willoughby
and measure the amount of time spent in each function, hopefully providing you with a weighted list so that you can start optimizing the top candidate right away and then go from there. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev

Re: [Flac-dev] Variable Bit Rate

2011-05-23 Thread Brian Willoughby
rate and a guarantee that nothing will be lost when you reduce bit rate below uncompressed. Masklinn actually did a great job of explaining why, I just wanted to present a different way of looking at the problem. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting

Re: [Flac-dev] Variable Bit Rate

2011-05-23 Thread Brian Willoughby
is impossible. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [Flac-dev] Variable Bit Rate

2011-05-23 Thread Brian Willoughby
, but the order should certainly be preserved in whatever buffer is used. The streaming software could be as simple as decoding to a WAV file and then starting playback after a sufficient amount of data has been collected. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting

Re: [Flac-dev] Variable Bit Rate

2011-05-23 Thread Brian Willoughby
a difference, then something is wrong with your system, not with the FLAC format. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [Flac-dev] Can a libFLAC encoder be initialize and called from inside a libFLAC decoder callback?

2011-05-24 Thread Brian Willoughby
. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On May 24, 2011, at 10:16, David Troendle wrote: I am getting large, corrupted native FLAC files when trying to call the encoder from inside the decoder. The metadata in the output file is OK. Is initializing and calling an encoder from inside a libFLAC

Re: [Flac-dev] Can a libFLAC encoder be initialize and called from inside a libFLAC decoder callback?

2011-05-24 Thread Brian Willoughby
two processes instead of being limited to two threads within a process. The pipe could also allow you to decode on one machine and encode on another over a network connection - assuming that's of any use to you. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting

Re: [Flac-dev] MD5 Signature Mismatch

2011-05-31 Thread Brian Willoughby
Signature even exists in these files before continuing to determine the reason for the mismatch. Maybe someone else has more information. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On May 31, 2011, at 19:20, Scott C. Brown 02 wrote: I found an old thread from 2007: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [Flac-dev] MD5 Signature Mismatch

2011-06-01 Thread Brian Willoughby
On Jun 1, 2011, at 05:12, Scott C. Brown 02 wrote: He sent me a link to the files here: http://www.archive.org/details/wolf2011-05-29.cleantone There are no uncompressed files here, so it's difficult to discover what you need to know. I just grabbed the first track (only 2.7 MB), and

Re: [Flac-dev] MD5 Signature Mismatch

2011-06-01 Thread Brian Willoughby
On Jun 1, 2011, at 19:15, Scott C. Brown 02 wrote: I thought it might be an uploading problem, but he also gets the same issues when simply moving from one of his computers to the other. (I supposed that could also be a transfer issue, though I doubt it). He's using a 3rd party front

Re: [Flac-dev] Git branch with compiling fixes for win32

2011-11-16 Thread Brian Willoughby
, then it would be great to see those contributed to the open source collection. However, none of those items would really result in a change to the FLAC library sources, which have been stable and solid for a respectable amount of time. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting

Re: [Flac-dev] Git branch with compiling fixes for win32

2011-11-18 Thread Brian Willoughby
What bugs? On Nov 18, 2011, at 04:16, Bastiaan Timmer wrote: It's good to see some updates to the FLAC project after so much time! Will there be any timeline for a bugfix-release? ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org

Re: [Flac-dev] Bug: end-of-line in FLAC console output

2011-11-21 Thread Brian Willoughby
It's becoming clear to me that we need to distinguish between the different aspects of FLAC software, whether it be the core library, command-line, or third-party tools. Although I use the command-line tool exclusively (plus a few of my own tools), I really don't care about bugs there or

Re: [Flac-dev] A-law and mu-law

2011-11-21 Thread Brian Willoughby
beyond what it is already. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [flac-dev] Compiling flac for OSX 10.4

2012-02-10 Thread Brian Willoughby
everything you need. If there are any problems with this build (and nobody has complained to me since 2009), then please let me know so I can make corrections and update the installer. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Feb 9, 2012, at 22:44, Glenn McCord wrote: I've been trying

Re: [flac-dev] [PATCH] Fix buffer overflow in metaflac

2012-04-05 Thread Brian Willoughby
Agreed. I was going to suggest memcpy() or something equivalent, because the FLAC structure is not literally a C string, but rather a 32-bit field that may or may not have a terminating NULL. Erik's code should work correctly in all cases. On Apr 5, 2012, at 04:02, Erik de Castro Lopo

Re: [flac-dev] FLAC QUESTION

2012-04-13 Thread Brian Willoughby
an answer for you here, but perhaps you can continue to work on your code and find the problem. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [flac-dev] Git branch with compiling fixes for win32

2012-05-07 Thread Brian Willoughby
improve its results, but keep in mind that changes to compilers sometimes produce less optimal results for particular cases, even if they involve improvements in most general cases. But it's certainly good to double-check periodically as compilers improve. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting

Re: [flac-dev] Bug or strange behaviour or --output-prefix

2013-01-01 Thread Brian Willoughby
is given. I often process *.flac in large directories.) For the second example, --create-output-directories would allow you to use any of the examples you gave without having flac stop with an error when the output directory structure does not already exist. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting

Re: [flac-dev] Tag flac as flac 1.2.1_git

2013-01-12 Thread Brian Willoughby
The amount of time that has passed since the last change has nothing to do with the version number. I'm inclined to believe that 1.2.2 would be appropriate. I'm sure there will be other, more appropriate ways to celebrate the new release after the long period of stability. Brian Willoughby

Re: [flac-dev] Tag flac as flac 1.2.1_git

2013-01-12 Thread Brian Willoughby
On Jan 12, 2013, at 14:28, Martijn van Beurden wrote: On 12-01-13 22:46, Brian Willoughby wrote: I would suggest that everyone keep in mind the vast installed base of hardware FLAC recorders and players, and not senselessly make them obsolete without extremely compelling reasons. This can

Re: [flac-dev] Tag flac as flac 1.2.1_git

2013-01-17 Thread Brian Willoughby
. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Jan 17, 2013, at 09:27, Ralph Giles wrote: On 13-01-16 11:10 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: My understanding is that the recent changes for 7 and 8 channels was a documentation change only. I think we should also change the flac front-end utility

Re: [flac-dev] Tag flac as flac 1.2.1_git

2013-01-21 Thread Brian Willoughby
On Jan 21, 2013, at 22:57, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: IMO, any code change at all, even just whitespace is worthy of its own version number. If the md5sum of the source code tarball is different it warrants an updated version number. Why would you release a new version of FLAC if the binary

Re: [flac-dev] Define 6.1 and 7.1 channel mappings

2013-01-21 Thread Brian Willoughby
On Jan 17, 2013, at 21:41, Ralph Giles wrote: On 13-01-17 7:26 PM, Brian Willoughby wrote: I vote for documenting the --channel-map option in the --help Do you ever use --channel-map yourself, or recommend it to clients? Professional surround mastering is delivered on very specific media

Re: [flac-dev] Commonly getting FLAC__STREAM_ENCODER_VERIFY_MISMATCH_IN_AUDIO_DATA on valid audio

2013-02-09 Thread Brian Willoughby
tools use float without lossy conversion. The only requirement there is that synthesized data should avoid +1.0 sample values unless clipping is acceptable or scaling is added before conversion. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ flac-dev mailing

Re: [flac-dev] Commonly getting FLAC__STREAM_ENCODER_VERIFY_MISMATCH_IN_AUDIO_DATA on valid audio

2013-02-09 Thread Brian Willoughby
not be used or allowed anywhere in libFLAC. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Feb 9, 2013, at 12:50, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Secondly, the scaling can be switched off don't you? See: http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ command.html#SFC_SET_NORM_DOUBLE

Re: [flac-dev] 2GB limit patch

2013-03-06 Thread Brian Willoughby
is the proper format for files that exceed 4 GB, while standard RIFF/WAVE should allow reading of files up to 4 GB. For maximum compatibility, writing WAV files over 2 GB should be avoided whenever possible, since so many tools used signed 32-bit file sizes. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting

Re: [flac-dev] 2GB limit patch

2013-03-06 Thread Brian Willoughby
would only need to change if the FLAC file size limits were altered. Besides, I believe that FLAC is supposed to be a stream with no maximum size limit. No API changes should be necessary for the command-line FLAC to support 4 GB WAV files. Did I miss something? Brian Willoughby Sound

Re: [flac-dev] I reinstalled OS X, now FLAC 1.3 git won't compile.

2013-03-11 Thread Brian Willoughby
When you reinstalled OSX, did you also reinstall the developer tools? I often forget that extra step. I assume you did, otherwise you wouldn't have gcc or make, but I figure it's worth asking. Also, there are option Unix tools that usually aren't installed unless you ask for them. Brian

Re: [flac-dev] [flac 1.3.0pre2 pre-release] Updates to test suite

2013-03-11 Thread Brian Willoughby
, but not both at the same time. Maybe the patches to the tests should wait until 1.3.1 Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting ___ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [flac-dev] Higher compression modes from Flake

2013-03-13 Thread Brian Willoughby
of options that are already available in the official flac command-line, albeit without a short, numerical abbreviation. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Mar 13, 2013, at 02:49, Marko Uibo wrote: Is it planned someday to implement additional higher (9-12) compression modes like in Flake

Re: [flac-dev] Higher compression modes from Flake

2013-03-16 Thread Brian Willoughby
On Mar 14, 2013, at 13:24, Declan Kelly wrote: I want the tightest possible compression, while remaining 100% compatible with the subset that all known FLAC decoders can successfully stream or play now in cars, Hi-Fi units, MP3 players and cell phones. The out and out most widely

Re: [flac-dev] Patch to add Unicode filename support for win32 flac

2013-03-17 Thread Brian Willoughby
On Mar 17, 2013, at 03:57, LRN wrote: /me looks at chmod and utime wrappers: Ah, i knew i've missed something! :) Also, i didn't consider wildcards (i thought shell was supposed to handle them...). I believe that shell does handle wildcards on all Unix variants, including OSX. Since

Re: [flac-dev] What is in directory flac.pbproj?

2013-04-30 Thread Brian Willoughby
Erik's request to simply delete the .pbproj directory and its contents. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting p.s. Unfortunately, I do not know who originally created those .pbproj files, why they did it, or whether they ever worked. You might even find archived list messages where I asked about

Re: [flac-dev] PATCH for rice_parameter calculation

2013-10-11 Thread Brian Willoughby
Or, I was originally thinking: rice_parameter = 0; k = partition_samples; if (k mean) { int n = mean - k; rice_parameter += n; k = n; } (sorry for the hasty post) On Oct 11, 2013, at 10:34, Brian Willoughby wrote: Hmm

Re: [flac-dev] Exact FLAC subset constraints

2014-01-06 Thread Brian Willoughby
I think you've found a bug, Bart. flac 1.2.1 did not have any FLAC__format_blocksize_is_subset() function, so the source you're seeing in format.c must be new. If the format documentation you linked to is correct, then either the specifications are self-contradictory, or the code is not

Re: [flac-dev] Exact FLAC subset constraints

2014-01-13 Thread Brian Willoughby
Yep, that looks conclusive. Thanks for finding this. Brian On Jan 12, 2014, at 11:08, lvqcl wrote: Also found this: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/2008-May/002550.html http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/2008-May/002559.html ___

Re: [flac-dev] Compression failed message

2014-01-31 Thread Brian Willoughby
contacting the developers. Brian Willoughby ___ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

Re: [flac-dev] Compression failed message

2014-02-01 Thread Brian Willoughby
(and equally lossless). However, I agree that it is rather strange to return non-zero by default, requiring a command-line option to defeat. I would expect it to be the reverse: off by default, and enabling non-zero on larger files via command-line option. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting

Re: [flac-dev] New release

2014-11-24 Thread Brian Willoughby
purely for security, the next with new changes in other areas. Brian Willoughby On Nov 24, 2014, at 12:47 AM, Miroslav Lichvar mlich...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 02:44:00AM -0800, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: lvqcl wrote: I have a couple of questions: 1) Do you plan

Re: [flac-dev] Two new CVEs against FLAC

2014-11-26 Thread Brian Willoughby
On Nov 25, 2014, at 8:27 AM, Declan Kelly flac-...@groov.ie wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:29:33AM -0800, mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote: CVE-2014-9028 : Heap buffer write overflow CVE-2014-8962 : Heap buffer read overflow Is it known what other FLAC decoding software or firmware

Re: [flac-dev] Two new CVEs against FLAC

2014-11-26 Thread Brian Willoughby
On Nov 26, 2014, at 1:40 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote: Brian Willoughby wrote: While we're on the topic, what sort of consequences are there, really, with this vulnerability? Worst case, your player stops playing on a file that cannot be played anyway. Yes, it's bad

Re: [flac-dev] [PATCH] Improve LPC order guess

2014-12-03 Thread Brian Willoughby
area to enhance performance in another area. Are these the sorts of things that can be handled by expanding the compression options, rather than thwarting existing performance? Brian Willoughby ___ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http

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