[flac-dev] WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE_CHANNEL_MASK is not described

Martijn van Beurden mvanb1 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 09:40:05 PDT 2015


Op 16-07-15 om 17:58 schreef lvqcl:
> But this text describes only those 4 bits in frame header.
> IMHO this sectoin should not describe WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE_CHANNEL_MASK,
> it should be described somewhere in vorbis comments section.

I would propose: 0000-0111 : (number of independent channels)-1. 
The channel order is defined through the 
WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE_CHANNEL_MASK vorbis comment, if defined. If 
no WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE_CHANNEL_MASK is present, the channel 
order follows SMPTE/ITU-R recommendations, which are as follows:


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