--- Chris Timko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, my name is Christopher Timko. I am currently a Senior at the > University of Arkansas majoring in computer engineering. As part of > our > graduation requirements, we must complete a design project. Students > are > encouraged to chose open source technology, since a network of > development > exists for most of these ideas. I have decided to investigate the > feasibility > of creating a hardware audio encoder that would record in the flac > codec, and > i was curious if you could give me some information. > Because of my lack of knowledge with audio codecs, i was first > wondering if > flac encoding could be done on the fly, or if a sound file would > first have to > be recorded in an uncompressed (wav) format, and then converted to > flac.
at some point before encoding to FLAC the audio will have to be converted to linear PCM if it is not already. > Also, I was wondering if there are some general web resources that > talk about > sound encoding, and possible hardware implementation. you might find some useful HDL code on http://www.opencores.org/ Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flac-dev
