Jens M Andreasen wrote: > We are drifting away here, but Dave Chapmans original considerations > still makes sense in the context of a theater or otherwise acoustically > controlled environment. The most likely outcome is that DVD-A/SACD will > be abondoned completely, and replaced with userfriendly formats.
I'm not sure what you mean by userfriendly. If you remove MLP and the encryption, then I would consider DVD-Audio as havng the potential to be very user-friendly. There is no need to create a new format - just "open" an existing one. Yes, the official specs are "secret", but so were the DVD-Video specs, and that didn't stop the Linux DVD-player authors. A DVD-A shares many of the same concepts (and very similar data structures) to a DVD-V, and I've already started to document a fair amount of the structure of a DVD-A here: http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/spec.shtml A very useful "feature" is that even on encrypted commercial DVD-As, the .IFO files are not encrypted - only the .AOB and .VOB files are. And the recent news about the reverse-engineering of ALAC (and other codecs in the past) casts doubt on the fact that MLP will remain proprietory forever. Dave.
