[Flac-dev] flac hardware recoder

[Chris Timko]

Hello, my name is Christopher Timko.  I am currently a Senior at the 
University of Arkansas majoring in computer engineering.  As part of our 
graduation requirements, we must complete a design project.  Students are 
encouraged to chose open source technology, since a network of development 
exists for most of these ideas.  I have decided to investigate the feasibility 
of creating a hardware audio encoder that would record in the flac codec, and 
i was curious if you could give me some information.
Because of my lack of knowledge with audio codecs, i was first wondering if 
flac encoding could be done on the fly, or if a sound file would first have to 
be recorded in an uncompressed (wav) format, and then converted to flac.
Also, I was wondering if there are some general web resources that talk about 
sound encoding, and possible hardware implementation.

thanks for your help,

Christopher Timko