--- Brent Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been reading through a few forums about ripping DVD audio / Sony > > SACD's (I'm not sure if these are the same or if they are different > formats).
they're different... DVD audio is linear PCM, maybe losslessly compressed with MLP. SACD I think is 1-bit pulse density modulated. > Anyway, being that I haven't found a way to rip this stuff yet as > there > may not be any consumer product out yet that enables the feat, I have > been curous about FLAC's ability to encode in a 6 channel format at > the > high bitrate (24bit) and sampling rate (96KHz). > > Is Flac capable of this? yes. > I'm sure that somewhere down the road, > we'll > be ablt to rip these newer CD formats - will we ba able to compress > them > with FLAC? the only real roadblock is for SACD; the stream would have to be converted to linear PCM first because that is all FLAC supports currently. Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Flac-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flac-users
