Provided that FLAC is really kind of inextensible:
Could you not define a "new" FLAC II format, now being reasonably defined?
In the best case the FLAC II decoder can still read the FLAC "legacy"
format, and things would work.
It is not pretty, but could be done. (In case there is some demand
for, of course.)
I actually don't see such a big difference to the "well-formed FLAC
case", because you would need a new decoder anyway. Or am I wrong on
this?
Best regards
Stefan
(P.S.: Not giving up on this so fastly... )
----- Mensagem de Fons Adriaensen <f...@linuxaudio.org> ---------
Data: Sun, 23 May 2021 22:40:26 +0200
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,
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