Isn't there a standard option to place FLAC data within an Ogg container? I don't use it myself, but I understand that it is quite popular. Would it be possible to interleave multiple FLAC blocks this way? In other words, can Ogg suffice as the second level of grouping that you refer to?
Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Sep 21, 2009, at 15:04, Martin Leese wrote: e deleflie <[email protected]> ... > 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 with that of Vorbis will help. Within a FLAC stream the audio is split into blocks which are grouped (interleaved). But within each block the eight channels are chained (sequential). This makes sense when there is a maximum of only eight channels. Within a Vorbis stream the audio is split into frames which are grouped (interleaved). Because a Vorbis stream can contain up to 256 channels, within each frame the channels are also grouped (interleaved). So, significantly increasing the number of channels in a FLAC stream is not simple. It would require a second level of grouping (interleaving). In fact, it would require a whole new file format. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
