8 Mar
2005
8 Mar
'05
8:29 a.m.
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.
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