I'm kind of swamped today so I'll answer what I can get away with until tonight:
--- Joshua Haberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The most interesting questions to me are ones you didn't address: > > 1. Will Ogg FLAC become the default manifestation of the FLAC codec? > If not, why not? What does Ogg not offer that makes it worth having > two different file formats of the same codec floating around? I'm hesitant to make that decision myself, I'd rather let users converge on something. > 2. Will FLAC be incorporated into the Ogg project to such an extent > that there could be one set of libraries and one set of commandline > tools for both FLAC and Vorbis? This would be so incredibly useful. Without actually promising it :) I would say yes. It sounds like Monty et al. is/are doing work to unify multiple codecs under a larger Ogg interface and have everything just work. It is all coming together now that more codecs have entered into the mix (Theora, Speex, FLAC). > If encoding/decoding/metadata operations could be accessed from a > single API, this would be a great boon to seeing FLAC supported in > many more applications. BTW, why is metadata implemented as part > of each codec and not as part of Ogg? That's one for Monty. Probably the answer is "it's too hard to come up with a spec that will satisfy even a majority given that Ogg can contain anything". I predict most metadata will remain specialized, perhaps with the exception of Vorbis comments since those are implemented in Vorbis, FLAC, and I think also Speex. > 3. Is there a way to convert FLAC files to Ogg FLAC? Not without decoding. If I had it to do over again I might have done it differently, but in native FLAC you can not find the frame boundaries without decoding. This reduces the container overhead but it's one of the drawbacks. I am working on a transcoding interface that will be able to at least do this without writing out to disk. Ogg FLAC to raw FLAC however is trivial as it just involves stripping the Ogg container off and concatenating the contents. Josh __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus � Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flac-dev
