Hi all,
I've got two problems compiling the current CVS FLAC sources on OSX.
Firstly, the configure script can't find the OGG libraries which were
installed from MacPorts. I have tried:
./configure --with-ogg-includes=/opt/local/include \
--with-ogg-lib=/opt/local/lib
but they ar
Harry,
You assume that the only way to use FLAC is the way that you are
using it, by converting one file format to another. That's not the
only way to use FLAC. The most important uses of FLAC are for
internet streaming radio or hand-held digital audio players. Both of
these prominent
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 03:05:32PM +0200, Harry Sack wrote:
> But it's not clear to me why everything was based on streams...
Streams, at least in the variety we seem to be describing, aren't
seekable. This is a considerable simplification and allows for
more flexibility in other areas, like net
No, streams should stay. Audio is NOT a file based process -- it's a
stream. You can't listen to an entire song simultaneously. You organize it
into files for later use, but you listen and record from a stream.
Stream-based storage is practically REQUIRED for an audio codec. It's not
random acc
2007/9/8, Brian Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Ralph,
>
> The problem is that there is no clear advantage, at least in terms of
> multiple cores, to the approach you're asking about. In order to
> allow each stage of the codec to overlap, you need smart buffering
> between each stage. That a
2007/9/8, Josh Coalson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> it actually is complicated. the libFLAC api is not suited to a
> multithreaded design because the i/o is stream-based, not file-
> based. flac(.exe) is the file-based wrapper around libFLAC that
> allows it to work on files. the way libFLAC buffers
