e deleflie <edelef...@gmail.com> ... > ok, I do realise that the extending the maximum channel count may be > difficult ... there's gotta be a way to do it though.
Perhaps a comparison of the FLAC structure with that of Vorbis will help. Within a FLAC stream the audio is split into blocks which are grouped (interleaved). But within each block the eight channels are chained (sequential). This makes sense when there is a maximum of only eight channels. Within a Vorbis stream the audio is split into frames which are grouped (interleaved). Because a Vorbis stream can contain up to 256 channels, within each frame the channels are also grouped (interleaved). So, significantly increasing the number of channels in a FLAC stream is not simple. It would require a second level of grouping (interleaving). In fact, it would require a whole new file format. Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev