[Flac] flac filesize limitation

[Jud White]

The 2^36 sample limit is nearly 4 days of audio at 192kHz.  The number 
of channels and bits per sample are non-factors.

If you have a question regarding format limitations, first read the 
format specification.  The answers you're seeking can be found here: 
http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#metadata_block_streaminfo

Harry Sack wrote:
>
>
> 2007/5/13, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <justivo at gmail.com 
> <mailto:justivo at gmail.com>>:
>
>     On 5/13/07, Brian Willoughby <brianw at sounds.wa.com
>     <mailto:brianw at sounds.wa.com>> wrote:
>     > If we ever reach this 64 GigaSample limit, the fact that FLAC is a
>     > stream should allow multiple FLAC headers to be concatenated in a
>     > single file - although that might be tricky.
>
>     I believe you can do this with Ogg FLAC.  The Ogg container manages
>     the multiple FLAC streams.  Theoretically, we'll never see limit
>     issues.
>
>
>
> why not? :)
> If I encode 192 kHz sound @ 24 bit for some days (WAV file) and I 
> encode it to FLAC, I think you can have a very big file and 1.5 TB is 
> reached very quickly.
> And in the future audio will even get bigger, when used for HD-DVD en 
> Blu-ray media and 5.1 channels is considered the 'minimum' setting for 
> surround sound.
>
> Harry
>
>     -Ivo
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