On 28 October 2011 10:46, Victor Vasiliev <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Magnus Manske
> <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Something to add to the Commons file format portfolio? Do we support
>> FLAC already?

> Does that mean that there are no patents over ALAC? IIRC Apache
> License 2.0 requires that from Apple, but there may be pitfalls.


ALAC uses an MPEG4 container, which is (sadly) too encumbered for our tastes.

FWIW, libavcodec has included an open source implementation of ALAC
for a long time. But it's nice to have an official reference
implementation.


- d.

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