[Flac] best params for safe archiving, 192kHz no-lax and w64 support

[Marek Peteraj]

Hi Curt,

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 08:50, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Marek Peteraj wrote:
> 
> > My last question - is there any chance for flac to support w64 files?
> > That would be cool since it would allow to compress >2Gb files.
> > (not sure if flac can compress >2Gb raw files)
> 
> That's your OS. Just use BSD and it will work fine.

Most modern file systems including reiserfs, ext3 on linux or ntfs on
windows allow more than 2Gb of data in a single file.

The wav/riff spec only allows a 32-bit value for data length hence the
2Gb limit.

Marek



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> cjs