--- Pascal Haakmat <a.haakmat@chello.nl> wrote:> Hello,
>
> First, thanks a lot for FLAC.
>
> A few questions. Apologies if this is not the right forum or if these
> questions have come up before; the SourceForge archive search didn't
> turn up anything.
>
> 1. Would it be possible for FLAC to support more than 8 channels?
> 2. If (1) is not desirable because it would break compatibility or
> some
> such, then is it possible to build a local copy supporting more
> channels by simply increasing FLAC__MAX_CHANNELS in
> include/FLAC/format.h?
>
> Either of these would greatly help in reducing the storage
> requirements for recording sessions.
the channel grouping is mainly to take advantage of interchannel
correlations. see also the FAQ:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#general__channels
you could hack the code to make non-standard FLAC with more
channels but you will also have to change how the number is
stored in the frame header.
Josh
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