On May 14, 2007, at 11:27, Harry Sack wrote:
2007/5/14, Brian Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On May 13, 2007, at 05:45, Harry Sack wrote:
> If I encode 192 kHz sound @ 24 bit for some days (WAV file) and I
> encode it to FLAC, I think you can have a very big file and 1.5 TB
> is reached very quickly.
> And in the future audio will even get bigger, when used for HD-DVD
> en Blu-ray media and 5.1 channels is considered the 'minimum'
> setting for surround sound.
Don't forget that the WAV file is going to stop recording at the 4GB
mark (2GB if the recording software is not carefully written). You
would need to record directly to FLAC if you want more than 4GB of
audio, and you'll need an operating system which can handle files
larger than that.
any modern *NIX OS can do this :)
A 4 GB file is not a weird thing: I save blu-ray images on my HDD
which are +/- 50 GB in filesize :)
Sure, but they're not WAV. WAV is limited to 4GB everywhere.
I was merely pointing out the detail that you can't encode to WAV and
then encode to FLAC because WAV is more limited in duration.
The FLAC library allows developers to create
recording software which saves audio data directly to FLAC files
without going first to another, more limited format. You may think
that 1.5 TB is reach very quickly, but in practice there are not any
programs which can support this.
you can write of course your own simple program to do this. It's
not because an existing program doesn't support it, it's
impossible. And of course in the near future programs will be able
to work with files as big as 1 TB and even bigger. And that was
exactly the thing I was talking about :)
Sorry, my wording was bad. Change "can" to "currently"
i.e. in practice there are not any programs which currently support
this.
Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting
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