--- smoerk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Curt Sampson wrote: > > Well, we already have the problem of being able to encode only a > very > > limited number of independent tracks in this field, too. Currently > > the limit is 8, which does me no good when I want to FLAC-encode a > > multi-track "master" from my studio, which can easily be 48 tracks > or > > more. > > FLAC can only encode 8 tracks? Why?
here's the justification behind the 8-track limit. the format includes a very light container suited for the most common usage of FLAC. it allows up to 8 independent channels to be used. some limit was necessary to keep the frame header simple, and looking back, I made it too complicated with the blocksize variants, etc. besides independent channels, the channel assigments are supposed to be reserved to the most common cases, and finally cases where inter-channel decorrelation can be used in order to improve the compression ratio, and I foresaw a limited number of these. so it's probably misnamed, or doing double duty, but it's not really meant to capture all possible channel assignments in use. more esoteric assigments, where the coding is still done independent of channel, should probably be done with mono FLAC streams muxed into a real container. Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flac-dev
