<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 14, 2007, at 11:27, Harry Sack wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">2007/5/14, Brian Willoughby <<A href="mailto:brianw@sounds.wa.com">brianw@sounds.wa.com</A>>:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On May 13, 2007, at 05:45, Harry Sack wrote:<BR>> If I encode 192 kHz sound @ 24 bit for some days (WAV file) and I<BR>> encode it to FLAC, I think you can have a very big file and 1.5 TB<BR>> is reached very quickly. <BR>> And in the future audio will even get bigger, when used for HD-DVD<BR>> en Blu-ray media and 5.1 channels is considered the 'minimum'<BR>> setting for surround sound.<BR><BR>Don't forget that the WAV file is going to stop recording at the 4GB <BR>mark (2GB if the recording software is not carefully written). You<BR>would need to record directly to FLAC if you want more than 4GB of<BR>audio, and you'll need an operating system which can handle files<BR>larger than that. </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR>any modern *NIX OS can do this :) <BR>A 4 GB file is not a weird thing: I save blu-ray images on my HDD which are +/- 50 GB in filesize :)<BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Sure, but they're not WAV. WAV is limited to 4GB everywhere.</DIV><DIV>I was merely pointing out the detail that you can't encode to WAV and then encode to FLAC because WAV is more limited in duration.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The FLAC library allows developers to create<BR>recording software which saves audio data directly to FLAC files<BR>without going first to another, more limited format. You may think<BR>that 1.5 TB is reach very quickly, but in practice there are not any <BR>programs which can support this.</BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR>you can write of course your own simple program to do this. It's not because an existing program doesn't support it, it's impossible. And of course in the near future programs will be able to work with files as big as 1 TB and even bigger. And that was exactly the thing I was talking about :) </DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Sorry, my wording was bad. Change "can" to "currently"</DIV><DIV>i.e. in practice there are not any programs which currently support this.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Brian Willoughby</DIV><DIV>Sound Consulting</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>