I've been reading through a few forums about ripping DVD audio / Sony SACD's (I'm not sure if these are the same or if they are different formats). Anyway, being that I haven't found a way to rip this stuff yet as there may not be any consumer product out yet that enables the feat, I have been curous about FLAC's ability to encode in a 6 channel format at the high bitrate (24bit) and sampling rate (96KHz). Is Flac capable of this? I'm sure that somewhere down the road, we'll be ablt to rip these newer CD formats - will we ba able to compress them with FLAC? Thanks, Brent
--- Brent Bowman <bbowman@vistacraft.com> wrote:> I've been reading through a few forums about ripping DVD audio / Sony > > SACD's (I'm not sure if these are the same or if they are different > formats).they're different... DVD audio is linear PCM, maybe losslessly compressed with MLP. SACD I think is 1-bit pulse density modulated.> Anyway, being that I haven't found a way to rip this stuff yet as > there > may not be any consumer product out yet that enables the feat, I have > been curous about FLAC's ability to encode in a 6 channel format at > the > high bitrate (24bit) and sampling rate (96KHz). > > Is Flac capable of this?yes.> I'm sure that somewhere down the road, > we'll > be ablt to rip these newer CD formats - will we ba able to compress > them > with FLAC?the only real roadblock is for SACD; the stream would have to be converted to linear PCM first because that is all FLAC supports currently. Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
Brent Bowman wrote:> I've been reading through a few forums about ripping DVD audio / Sony > SACD's (I'm not sure if these are the same or if they are different > formats).I think there is no possibility to even read SACD on a DVD-ROM drive, Sony did everything to protect SACD from getting copied (you still have the analog hole). iirc correctly there are only one or two commercial software players for DVD-Audio and no open source player, so i guess it'S also not possible to rip DVD-Audio.