[Flac-dev] FLAC as part of the Ogg project?

[Josh Coalson]

--- Christer Palm <palm at nogui.se> wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > 
> > As I understand it, the current Ogg/FLAC implementation simply
> wraps the Ogg
> > bitstream format around a normal FLAC stream, thus not utilizing
> the
> > features of Ogg, and duplicating various bookkeeping data.  If the
> Ogg folks
> > were to spec out a FLAC-based codec for Ogg, it would likely look
> different
> > from the current implementation.
> > 
> 
> 
> Right.
> 
> And to "fix" that in the reference implementation, the API would 
> probably need to expose a new layer of functionality below the
> "stream" 
> abstraction, so that frame headers and subframes could be processed 
> separately outside the FLAC stream context.
> 
> Making that change would also open up a whole new world of
> possibilities 
> of encapsulating FLAC frames in various stream formats.
> 
> 
> I'd be happy to put some effort into making that happen, but after 
> having looked at the code as it currently stands I realize that this 
> would require some quite substantial changes, and it would probably
> be 
> wise to have an open discussion about whether and how such a change 
> should be implemented before hacking away on it. What is your opinion
> 
> about this, Josh?

I'd be interested in hearing what you have in mind.

As far as FLAC being part of the Ogg project... first I
think Monty still has an idea of redoing Squish someday;
but vorbis is lot of work and maybe he will eventually
settle for FLAC.  Second, it may not be much of a roadblock
but I don't plan on switching to a BSD license.  Maybe that
means separate codebases, maybe that means a reimplementation.

Josh


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