From: Alfons Adriaensen
<fons.adriaensen(a)alcatel.be>
Why not? Flac + open DVD-audio format for N channels.
Do you know any DVD-A player that has a FLAC decoder built in ?
The DVD-A spec does not allow anything but MLP, or no compression,
so no manufacturer will ever make such a thing.
If EU wants that other media players should run in Windows,
perhaps EU would look bad the DVD-Audio spec as well.
Whoever designed the spec, it was stupid not to look around for
non-patented/non-proprietary lossless format as an alternative.
We just have to work out the suitable modification/extension to
the spec. How vdix/dvix format ended up to be a standard in DVD
video players? How mp3-discs in CD player? And how the various
copycontrol systems on CDs?
Juhana
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