[Flac-dev] lossless codecs in wireless headphones.

[Josh Coalson]

--- Ameya Potadar <ameyap at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
> just came across this article.
>
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=ZLCZZJMVGJYNYQSNDLSCKHA?articleID=201202250
>  .
> Many of you would be already aware of this. It mentions flac also. i
> feel it
> is a good segment(stereo wireless headsets over bluetooth) to push
> flac
> given very light decoder and using encoder at low compression(to
> reduce
> complexity). Though very less is known in terms of compression and
> complexity about this proprietary codec(SoundAbout Lossless codec), i
> feel possibility of pitching flac as a standard for stereo-audio over
> bluetooth should be explored.

I saw that too.  a lot of EE times articles are just regurgitated
PR, which is fine I guess for trade magazines, but usually not that
balanced.  as you hint at, FLAC latency can be tuned down to the 2-10
msec range too, and libFLAC has encoding modes that are nearly as
fast as decoding.  even more is possible with a hardware
implementation, but it's been a while since I wrote any HDL and don't
have the spare time for it.

Josh



       
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