[Flac-users] FLAC joins Xiph

[Josh Coalson]

As of today FLAC has officially joined the Xiph project
(Xiph is behind other codecs such as Vorbis and Theora).

  http://xiph.org/ogg/flac.html

 From a user's perspective, the only change will be better
integration with Ogg tools.  Native FLAC will continue to
exist as before, the FLAC format is not changing, the command-
line tools and plugins will continue to work the same way,
etc.

Being part of Xiph will eventually lead to FLAC being able
to be used inside the Ogg multimedia tools just like Vorbis
or the other codecs.  For example, you could have FLAC muxed
in with a video stream as the lossless sound source.

In addition, the codec libraries will be available under
Xiph's BSD-like license.

Josh


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