On Tue, 18 May 2004 16:24:14 +0200 Alfons Adriaensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello list, > > I'm involved in a (friendly) debate on the surround sound list. > One the main contributors of this list, Angelo Farina (univ. of > Parma, Italy) wants to make available some interesting 4-channel > recordings he recently made. The distribution format has to be > lossless. I already pointed him to FLAC and the Windows tools > available for this format. He tested these and has some objections: > > - The codec does accept WAV, but not WAV-EX files. > - There seems to be no Windoze player that can handle > 4 channels FLAC files directly. Once libsndfile gets Ogg Vorbis and Speex support, FLAC support is also high on the list. Since libsndfile accepts WAV-EX (stupid fscking microsoft idea) it will be able to transcode WAV-EX -> FLAC without a problem. libsndfile also comes with a command line player (works in windows) so that can solve the playing problem as well. > I'd like to exert some gently pressure towards an open source > format, but then I'll need some answers to these problems. > So if anyone has some information about this, I'd like to > know. All this may be a bit OT, so maybe the best thing is > to contact me by email. Colonisation of the windows world by Free Software is very definitely on topic :-). Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ A good debugger is no substitue for a good test suite. -- -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ A good debugger is no substitue for a good test suite.
