On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Brian Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone here potentially up to the task of adding support for CAF > (the CoreAudio Format) into the flac command-line? This would > present minimal difficulty under OSX, due to the presence of the > CoreAudio API, but the real challenge would be to support CAF on Unix > and Windows - everywhere that flac is now available.
I expect I could do it as part of my work on Ogg Frog: http://www.oggfrog.com/free-music-software In the short term, I would do it by accessing the QuickTime APIs - which *are* available on Windows, if you install either iTunes or QuickTime for Windows. (The iTunes install includes QuickTime.) In the long term, I could write a codec for it that would be straightforward to integrate into the flac command-line tool. That would allow its use on UNIX. HOWEVER! Is the CoreAudio file format or its associated algorithms patented? QuickTime in general has many patents. A patent wouldn't stop me from writing the source code, but a binary couldn't be provided by anyone in a country that recognizes software patents. Mike -- Michael David Crawford mdcrawford at gmail dot com Enjoy my art, photography, music and writing at http://www.geometricvisions.com/ --- Free Compact Disc --- _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev