[flac-dev] Exact FLAC subset constraints

[Martijn van Beurden]

On 19-01-14 09:43, Барт Гопник wrote:
> If answer on any of these questions is "yes", documentation on the
> website should be updated (fixed)!

No one here knows for sure, as Josh won't probably be listening 
to answer these questions, so I guess most of us are actually 
relying on the documentation that should be fixed. Anyway, the 
documentation lvqcl found indicated that the answer to your 
first two questions is in fact 'yes'.

I don't know why your third question is the most 'interesting', 
because as far as I know the website states nowhere that 
variable blocksize streams are not subset. It's simply not 
mentioned anywhere. However, be aware that the FLAC reference 
encoder always produces streams with fixed-size blocks, so most 
3rd-party (hardware) implementations, even the FLAC reference 
decoder, hasn't been tested with those variable blocksize 
streams. Therefore, it needs a bit of thought and testing to 
implement this. Probably that's the reason that the flake 
encoder says variable blocksizes are non-subset while as far as 
I know they technically aren't.

So I think the answer to the third question is yes, but please 
proceed with caution.