[Flac-dev] A-law and mu-law

2011-11-18 Thread Giulio Paci
Hi to all! I have a database of audio files that I want to losslessly compress. Unfortunately I have several 8bit A-law and mu-law files in the database and I see from here http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation_tools_flac.html that they are not supported by the reference flac encoder/d

Re: [Flac-dev] Git branch with compiling fixes for win32

2011-11-18 Thread Bastiaan Timmer
Well, I have been away a couple of days, so I don't know if I'm in time, but I reported a memory leak and submitted a patch a couple of months ago. It would be nice if it can make it in. I first reported the leak here: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/2011-August/003002.html And the pa

Re: [Flac-dev] A-law and mu-law

2011-11-18 Thread Martijn van Beurden
Because u-law and a-law are non-linear algorithms and the mathematics of FLAC (and AFAIK all lossless encoders) are build for linear PCM. Adding these formats would change the FLAC format altogether, decoders are not made to work with it (they can only output plain PCM) Best option would be con

Re: [Flac-dev] Git branch with compiling fixes for win32

2011-11-18 Thread Brian Willoughby
What bugs? On Nov 18, 2011, at 04:16, Bastiaan Timmer wrote: > It's good to see some updates to the FLAC project after so much > time! Will there be any timeline for a bugfix-release? ___ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/