[Flac-dev] support for more than 8 channels

[Tobias Gehrig]

Hi,
we have a speech recognizer here that gets some of its input from a
microphone array. To the point we used shorten for the archiving of the
material, but since we want to change the license of the speech
recognizer to gpl we are searching for an gpl alternative (like FLAC).
It seems to be pretty good for our needs (24bit rather than 16bit in
shorten and so forth). The only problem is that our microphone array has
64 channels and FLAC apparently supports just up to 8 channels.
So my question is if it would be possible to change that to support at
least 64 channels maximum. I am willing to assist in the programming
part, but since it seems that this would also lead to a format change
the whole thing also depends on what you say about this.
If it is not possible to change the number of channels supported, do you
know an alternative?

MfG
	Tobias
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Tobias Gehrig <tgehrig at ira.uka.de>
Universität Karlsruhe - Fakultät für Informatik - Interactive Systems
Labs