[vorbis-dev] Formats other than Vorbis in Ogg (FLAC)

[Josh Coalson]

--- rillian <rillian at telus.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 26, 2001, at 12:03 , Jonathan Stewart wrote:
> 
> > What formats does Ogg intend to support?  I know that there's work
on 
> > Ogg Tarkin going on.  But what about putting a plain wave file into
the 
> > Ogg framework?
> 
> Just to add to what michael said, I think having an uncompressed or 
> lossless audio format for ogg will be a useful thing...mostly for
> video 
> from my point of view. MNG + lossless audio + ogg would make a nice
> open 
> format for video editing/master distribution. Of course you can
> easily 
> think of lots of ways to wrap pcm in ogg, but so far there's been no 
> real need. Getting to a place where we can afford lossless
> compression 
> on both the audio in video might be an interesting thing.

At one point, Matt Zimmerman had hacked the FLAC encoder
to generate Ogg streams.  I couldn't really pick up the
ball then but his patch is still in the flac-dev list
archives if someone wants to run with it.

Josh

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