Brian Willoughby wrote: > The stream header only has 3 bits for the channel count, so it's not > possible to support more than 8 channels without breaking compatibility with > all embedded products that support FLAC, not to mention old and existing > software.
A second problem is that of interleaving. This is described in the following 2009 post to the flac-dev list: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/2009-September/002709.html ... > There might still be a solution for you, though. Ogg and other formats can > embed FLAC data inside another container, so it might be possible to create > a 16-channel "FLAC" in an Ogg container as two 8-channel FLAC files or even > as eight stereo FLAC files for maximum compression. I don't know whether Ogg > is optimized for streaming such that it could interleave multiple FLAC files > this way, but it's worth investigating. Using OggFLAC with multiple FLAC streams would also solve the interleaving problem. However, it creates the problem of where and how to store metadata describing which FLAC stream contains what channels. Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list Flac@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac