Hi Kevin,

That sounds fine to me.  A lot of my work (e.g. feeding Codec 2
compressed audio into a modulator input) requires a raw, headerless bit
stream.

So it would be great if any changes to c2dec/c2enc support (say via a
command line option) a headerless version.

Thanks,

David

On 24/07/17 09:26, Kevin Otte wrote:
> I was going back over this thread and realizing that, despite resembling
> a Not Invented Here solution, a full on container format might be
> overkill. Seeking, as Tomas suggested, would be nice, but for the most
> part we're just trying to play short streams.
> 
> So, to the original poster's request, I humbly suggest ".c2" as the
> extension. I don't think there are any issues with a two character
> extension as opposed to a three or four.
> 
> That said, the notion of managing the different bitrates does present a
> challenge. I therefore suggest any such encoded file have some "magic"
> bytes at the beginning, even if this is something as simple as 0x43 0x32
> ("C2"). I then propose the next byte be the mode ID as defined in
> codec2.h. This would allow c2enc/c2dec to be retrofitted or separate
> tools to be constructed to Do The Right Thing™ based on these.
> 
> If we can agree on these bytes, I'm happy to take a stab at coding this
> up. It doesn't look like it should be too difficult (famous last words!)
> 
> 73 de Kevin N8VNR
> 
> On 05/22/2017 04:35 PM, Kevin Otte wrote:
>> Or Matroska (.mka):
>> https://matroska.org/technical/specs/index.html
>>
>> On 05/22/2017 02:28 PM, Bruce Perens wrote:
>>> See https://www.xiph.org/ogg/doc/rfc3533.txt . Make it work with the
>>> Ogg Encapsulation Format.
>>
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