Brian Willoughby <[email protected]> > 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?
Etienne was asking for more channels in the FLAC stream, so I was trying to put some meat on Josh's bare bones statement that it "would actually be a lot of work and require extensions to the flac format". Having multiple FLAC streams in an Ogg container would, indeed, provide a second level of grouping -- actually grouping in chunks of eight, but that works. The problem then becomes where to put the metadata. The metadata could still go in the (multiple) FLAC streams, as you suggested, but should more logically be up in the Ogg container. Currently, the only place available in Ogg is as name-value pairs in an OggSkeleton stream. After OggSkeleton has become well supported then metadata can go into its own stream, but we are not there yet. There does not seem to be a neat solution. Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
