I am probably going to do another release in the next couple of weeks. aside from the fixing a few minor bugs that have been reported, the next release will (hopefully) have two neat features: 1. support for wrapping FLAC streams in Ogg. thanks to Matt for the initial work. I have taken his patch and worked it into flac 1.0, which I will be checking in this week. 2. hopefully flac will build in Mac OS X. I just got an ibook so I'm going to try to get flac to compile on it for the next release. it seems like a lot for an .0.1 release but I am leaning towards a numbering scheme where the major number changes only when the format breaks backward compatibility, minor only when the libFLAC api breaks backward compatibility, and minor-minor for everything else. Josh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
--- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote:> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 03:23:05PM -0800, Josh Coalson wrote: > > > 1. support for wrapping FLAC streams in Ogg. thanks to Matt for > the > > initial work. I have taken his patch and worked it into flac 1.0, > > which I will be checking in this week. > > Very cool. Did you just wrap the FLAC format in Ogg as I did, or did > you try to make use of its features in place of those in the FLAC > format?it is wrapped in ogg. there was a discussion on the vorbis list about this. what I settled on is that native FLAC has a lot of advantages to it, and the Ogg overhead is small enough not to really worry about. I have checked in the first round of ogg support. you can use --ogg when encoding. the decoder will decode ogg-FLAC also except I first have to implement ogg autodetection. I'll probably check that in today. then the next step will be some method of converting ogg-FLAC to native-FLAC (and vice versa) without a full decode/encode cycle. I have not tested the changes to configure.in though. that's the part that always makes me cringe :) Josh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 03:23:05PM -0800, Josh Coalson wrote:> 1. support for wrapping FLAC streams in Ogg. thanks to Matt for the > initial work. I have taken his patch and worked it into flac 1.0, > which I will be checking in this week.Very cool. Did you just wrap the FLAC format in Ogg as I did, or did you try to make use of its features in place of those in the FLAC format? -- - mdz