hi, Paul Winkler wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:25:34PM +0200, Marc-Olivier Barre wrote: >> I been thinking of the same thing... can't ardour handle FLAC files >> natively ? > > Nope. > >> a simple script in <you-name-it> language calling flac to >> to compress the audio and change the session file to match the new >> names should work I think. >> >> Thoughts anyone ? > > That'd be nice but as I said earlier, FLAC can't handle Ardour's wav > files: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sounds $ flac Audio\ 1-1.wav > > flac 1.1.2, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005 Josh Coalson > flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and > you are > welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `flac' for > details. > > options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3 > Audio 1-1.wav: ERROR: unsupported compression type 3
Seems that ardor uses WAVE_FORMAT_IEEE_FLOAT and flac can only do pcm. http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#general__samples That make flac not idea for that purpose. If one still wants to do that, gstreamer could do the converion and en/decoding. Stefan > > > But as pointed out earlier in the thread, wavpack is open source and > it seems to work. > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-dev
