Re: [Cooker] flac-1.0.2 to incoming

2002-07-04 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uploaded flac-1.0.2-1mdk.src.rpm to incoming. FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of: What is the point of being lossless? How does it compare in

Re: [Cooker] flac-1.0.2 to incoming

2002-07-04 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 04 Jul 2002 11:37:49 +0200 Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. What is the point of being lossless? How does it compare in terms of performance (e.g. size of typical audio files) to raw/wav and mp3/ogg? The typical

Re: [Cooker] flac-1.0.2 to incoming

2002-07-04 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not trying to pass the buck but a better presentation than I can do of what flac is and can do is found here. http://flac.sourceforge.net/features.html. I still not see the point of being lossless but if some people enjoys it ;p. -- Guillaume

Re: [Cooker] flac-1.0.2 to incoming

2002-07-04 Thread Curtis H
On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 08:36, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not trying to pass the buck but a better presentation than I can do of what flac is and can do is found here. http://flac.sourceforge.net/features.html. I still not see the point of

[Cooker] flac-1.0.2 to incoming

2002-07-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
Uploaded flac-1.0.2-1mdk.src.rpm to incoming. FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of: the stream format libFLAC, which implements reference encoders and decoders flac, a command-line wrapper around