IFF is not very programmer friendly. MS/IBM eliminated the IEEE floating
point numbers(ex. sample rate) and cleaned up CODEC handling/description
significantly to name a few changes. As with many standards, the IFF concept
was good, but the implementation was mediocre.
Now if MS had just left GSM and ADPCM compression alone...
Todd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Niklas Matthies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] structure of aiff and mp3 files
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:38:09AM -0800, Todd Richmond wrote:
> > For AIFF, you can review code from SOX(or other freeware) to get a very
good
> > idea how it is structured. It won't be a complete spec, but it is free
and
> > helpfull for people like me who think "the code is the most accurate
> > documentation" :). AIFF/AIFC is very close to the RIFF format in MS .wav
> > files.
>
> I'd phrase it the other way round. RIFF is Microsoft's (and IBM's)
> adaption of IFF for Windows 3.0 (they felt the need to create a
> proprietary file format instead of using plain IFF), and WAV is to
> RIFF what AIFF is to IFF.
>
> -- Niklas Matthies
> --
> The future ain't what it used to be...
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