8 Mar
2005
8 Mar
'05
7:25 a.m.
Jens M Andreasen wrote:
We are drifting away here, but Dave Chapmans original
considerations
still makes sense in the context of a theater or otherwise acoustically
controlled environment. The most likely outcome is that DVD-A/SACD will
be abondoned completely, and replaced with userfriendly formats.
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.
Yes, the official specs are "secret", but so were the DVD-Video specs,
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.
Dave.