[Flac-users] DVD-audio and FLAC

[Josh Coalson]

--- Brent Bowman <bbowman at vistacraft.com> wrote:
> I've been reading through a few forums about ripping DVD audio / Sony
> 
> SACD's (I'm not sure if these are the same or if they are different 
> formats).

they're different... DVD audio is linear PCM, maybe
losslessly compressed with MLP.  SACD I think is 1-bit
pulse density modulated.

> Anyway, being that I haven't found a way to rip this stuff yet as
> there 
> may not be any consumer product out yet that enables the feat, I have
> been curous about FLAC's ability to encode in a 6 channel format at
> the 
> high bitrate (24bit) and sampling rate (96KHz).
> 
> Is Flac capable of this?

yes.

> I'm sure that somewhere down the road,
> we'll 
> be ablt to rip these newer CD formats - will we ba able to compress
> them 
> with FLAC?

the only real roadblock is for SACD; the stream would have to
be converted to linear PCM first because that is all FLAC
supports currently.

Josh


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