Re: [Flac] Room for safe opaque blocks in flac streams? Looking to add error correction to flac.

2007-04-08 Thread Josh Coalson
--- Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there an obvious safe way to add some extra data to a flac file > that spec decoders will happily ignore? > > I'd like to explore creating a tool which will add N extra redundancy > frames at the end which will allow perfect decoding with up to

Re: [Flac] Room for safe opaque blocks in flac streams? Looking to add error correction to flac.

2007-04-01 Thread Brian Willoughby
Gregory, You might want to move your question over to the Flac-dev mailing list. A FLAC stream allows for additional metadata, including custom data which decoders will skip. However, metadata must come before the audio data, and thus you cannot append it to the end. You also won't be ab

[Flac] Room for safe opaque blocks in flac streams? Looking to add error correction to flac.

2007-04-01 Thread Gregory Maxwell
Is there an obvious safe way to add some extra data to a flac file that spec decoders will happily ignore? I'd like to explore creating a tool which will add N extra redundancy frames at the end which will allow perfect decoding with up to ~N frames lost in the files. This would allow users to sa