On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 01:10:21PM -0600, Martin Leese wrote: > Extending FLAC to more than eight channels > has been discussed in the past. For > example, look in the sursound archives for this > long post by me: > Subject: Re: [Sursound] octofile release > Date: Mon Jul 30 22:30:42 EDT 2018 > > It is not possible, except by using multiple > FLAC streams in a single container.
Does this 8 channel limit exist just because only 3 bits are reserved for the number of channels in the STREAMINFO block, or is it a fundamental limit of the algorithm ? I suspect it's the former. Apparently whoever defined that format was thinking that even a single byte would be a terrible waste of bits. Same for the maximum size (in frames) which is 36 bits. Rounding that up to 5 bytes would again have been a terrible waste of superexpensive bits. I wonder how that passed any serious review... Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
