Good point. But, gee, doesn't the source code serve as a provably- complete documentation of the format? It's able to be compiled into a program that can decode all files.
I'm only half serious. Source code is not the most concise way to describe a format. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Jan 28, 2009, at 11:20, [email protected] wrote: > I read through the specifications here: > http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html > but the document is not "autonomous". > > Instead, sections entitled "prediction" and "residual coding", > use external references, some of with are unavailable > (dead link) or in poor state. > > What i mean here is that it is not possible to > write a decoder from scratch using only the spec document: > it's OK fo metadata, but apparently does not tell > everything about the audio data format. > > To make sure everyone will be able to decode > FLAC data in decades from now, it would be nice > to have a single, self-contained document > about audio data in FLAC files ! > > Paul _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac
