[flac-dev] Define 6.1 and 7.1 channel mappings

2012-09-21 Thread Ralph Giles
The FLAC format specification never defined the semantics of 7- and 8-channel files, which has caused some pain for some years now. Attached is a patch to define them. I don't know if this follows follows SMPTE/ITU-R recommendations, but it follows common tool practice. I chose the set of

[flac-dev] Predicting the loss of data from flacs to mp3

2012-09-21 Thread Ajay Mandlekar
Hello, My partner and I are both high school students who are working on a device that encrypts secret messages into sound files. The method that we are using involves the conversion of data into an mp3 format, and this results in a loss of data that is crucial to the success of the device. We

[flac-dev] Anyone made flac working on iPhone

2012-09-21 Thread Xin Qiang Liu
I always see Apple mach-O Linker error even when I compiled libflac in a single project, and depends on the generated libflac.a Thanks ___ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev

[flac-dev] FLAC

2012-09-21 Thread Yasser Sharaf
Dear guys; I have a streamer; Pioneer N-50 which supports FLAC files. All my classical library is in FLAC and I have a problem when I play it through most of the media players and my streamer is that most of the CDs tracks are not played in order as if you are using shuffle to play them!!! If

[flac-dev] flac support on parrot asteroid

2012-09-21 Thread DeCeNt CrImInAl
Hi, I have a Parrot Asteroid car media receiver that uses an Android based operating system to function. Is there anything the development crew can do to make the Asteroid stream FLAC audio? the system does have an installer for 3rd party .APK files Best regards,

[flac-dev] New C++ file encode example

2012-09-21 Thread Bastiaan Timmer
Ok, so I ended up creating 2 versions of this, I hope the attachments aren't too big. The first one is what I mentioned earlier, pretty much a line-for-line translation of the original example. The c++-style casts made the (already ugly) lines with casts even uglier by the way... The

Re: [flac-dev] Define 6.1 and 7.1 channel mappings

2012-09-21 Thread Stephen F. Booth
I like the idea of standardizing the channel maps. I would suggest the following channel orderings: 6.1: L R C LFE Ls Rs Cs (MPEG 6.1 A layout) 7.1: L R C LFE Ls Rs Rls Rrs (MPEG 7.1 B layout) I think this more closely matches what Apple has done and what the default WAVE channel order is

Re: [flac-dev] Define 6.1 and 7.1 channel mappings

2012-09-21 Thread Ralph Giles
On Fri Sep 21 16:31:21 2012, Stephen F. Booth wrote: 6.1: L R C LFE Ls Rs Cs (MPEG 6.1 A layout) I'm confused. WAV puts the rear centre before everything but 'Front left of center' and 'Front right of center'. Are you saying you prefer the extra front channels to to side/rear surround, or