[flac-dev] flac-dev Digest, Vol 91, Issue 4

[James Haigh]

On Jun 19, 2012 8:08 PM, "Dennis Brunnenmeyer" <dennisb at chronometrics.com>
wrote:
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> Perhaps update the codec to handle 32 bit files while remaining the same
otherwise?

32bit audio files? What are they used for?

James.

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>> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:08:27 +0100
>> From: James Haigh <james.r.haigh at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [flac-dev] Next generation WebM and FLAC
>> To: flac-dev at xiph.org
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>> Hello,
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>> I have proposed to WebM to use FLAC in a future version. Since FLAC was
>> designed a decade ago, I was wondering if there were any new compression
>> techniques that FLAC could use in a new version to improve compression
>> ratios.
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>> If so, it would be worth synchronising with WebM for compatibility
reasons.
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>> Here's the WebM discussion:
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https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/group/webm-discuss/browse_thread/thread/42fd53c71b2bcc74
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>> Best regards,
>> James Haigh.
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>> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:18:51 -0700
>> From: Ralph Giles <giles at thaumas.net>
>> Subject: Re: [flac-dev] Next generation WebM and FLAC
>> To: James Haigh <james.r.haigh at gmail.com>
>> Cc: flac-dev at xiph.org
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>> On 12-06-19 10:08 AM, James Haigh wrote:
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>>> I have proposed to WebM to use FLAC in a future version. Since FLAC was
>>> designed a decade ago, I was wondering if there were any new compression
>>> techniques that FLAC could use in a new version to improve compression
>>> ratios.
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>> The short answer is yes, but for it to be work promoting a new standard,
>> you really want to do *significantly* better than flac, like lossless at
>> half the file size. That's a lot harder than an extra 10% or 20%
>> compression. A great research project, in other words, but I think we'd
>> do better to concentrate resources on improving support for the existing
>> flac format which is very widely adopted.
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>>  -r
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