Hi Josh, The minimum things that Flac would need to implement to satisfy the 'file implementations' part of the spec is a bit of metadata and the extensions to channel counts.
ok, I do realise that the extending the maximum channel count may be difficult ... there's gotta be a way to do it though. Etienne On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Josh Coalson <xf...@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- On Thu, 9/17/09, e deleflie <edelef...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Flac Developers, >> >> My name is Etienne Deleflie, I'm the founder of >> http://www.ambisonia.com and, more recently, http://soundofspace.com. >> >> Myself and the community I serve are looking for a lossless file >> format that can encapsulate ambisonic encoding. To this end a >> specification has been drafted, and is nearing stability, that >> describes practical features designed to get the most out of >> ambisonics. >> >> That spec is accessible here: >> http://ambisonics.googlegroups.com/web/Universal_Ambisonic_0.96.pdf >> >> I'm wondering if the FLAC community might be interested in >> implementing a lossless implementation of that spec. I know there are >> some current incompatibilities. I'm also aware that there are certain >> open source processes involved around implementing new features. I'd >> be happy to get involved with those processes if someone expressed >> interest at implementing these features. > > this is cool but would actually be a lot of work and require extensions > to the flac format. it's not something that I would be able to do for > the foreseeable future. > > > > > _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev