18 May
2004
18 May
'04
6:54 p.m.
On Tue, 18 May 2004 16:24:14 +0200
Alfons Adriaensen <fons.adriaensen(a)alcatel.be> wrote:
Hello list,
I'm involved in a (friendly) debate on the surround sound list.
One the main contributors of this list, Angelo Farina (univ. of
Parma, Italy) wants to make available some interesting 4-channel
recordings he recently made. The distribution format has to be
lossless. I already pointed him to FLAC and the Windows tools
available for this format. He tested these and has some objections:
- The codec does accept WAV, but not WAV-EX files.
- There seems to be no Windoze player that can handle
4 channels FLAC files directly.
Once libsndfile gets Ogg Vorbis and Speex support, FLAC support is
also high on the list. Since libsndfile accepts WAV-EX (stupid fscking
microsoft idea) it will be able to transcode WAV-EX -> FLAC without
a problem. libsndfile also comes with a command line player (works
in windows) so that can solve the playing problem as well.
I'd like to exert some gently pressure towards an
open source
format, but then I'll need some answers to these problems.
So if anyone has some information about this, I'd like to
know. All this may be a bit OT, so maybe the best thing is
to contact me by email.
Colonisation of the windows world by Free Software is very definitely
on topic :-).
Erik
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