On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:22 +0000, Dave Chapman wrote: > 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.
The need for a new format is the obvious advantage of FLAC compression. On the other hand, iff the data fits on a single CD (oh wait, DVD) then there is no need. Excuse me my ignorance, but: Is the spec open enough to create n-channel masters? Are there consumer players in existence with more than two channels out? (and here I do not mean the 5:1 audio from DVD movies.) > > Yes, the official specs are "secret", but so were the DVD-Video specs, In some parts of the world, this is an infected subject ... > 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. OK! > > Dave. -- ( ) c[] // Jens M Andreasen
