Have you considered trying to have FLAC become an official part of the Ogg project? Ogg has Vorbis but no lossless codec, and FLAC is already production quality. You've already written the code to wrap FLAC in an Ogg bitstream. Ogg Squish seems to be abandoned, and it would be a grand waste of effort to revive it when FLAC already works so well. The Ogg people would be much better off adopting FLAC and working on Tarkin. I think you would benefit greatly from the publicity of being an official Ogg codec. Many people know about Vorbis, but FLAC is not well known. Sorry if this is a FAQ. Joshua -- Joshua Haberman <joshua@haberman.com>
I agree, but the idea behind the OGG formats is to build patent free codecs. Is FLAC really patent-free ? And does the OGG team agree to include FLAC in their specs ? smoerk wrote:> I agree. I think Ogg/Flac does not make sense, if it's not in the > official distribution. the benefits: > > - many ogg players could play flac > - flac could be integrated in oggenc (oggdrop) > - flac streaming would be easy > - you could easily use vorbis tagging > > we need a standard open source lossless format. it's silly to store > digital audio uncompressed. > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:36:01 -0800, Joshua Haberman wrote: > > >>Have you considered trying to have FLAC become an official part of the >>Ogg project? Ogg has Vorbis but no lossless codec, and FLAC is already >>production quality. You've already written the code to wrap FLAC in an >>Ogg bitstream.
I agree. I think Ogg/Flac does not make sense, if it's not in the official distribution. the benefits: - many ogg players could play flac - flac could be integrated in oggenc (oggdrop) - flac streaming would be easy - you could easily use vorbis tagging we need a standard open source lossless format. it's silly to store digital audio uncompressed. On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:36:01 -0800, Joshua Haberman wrote:>Have you considered trying to have FLAC become an official part of the >Ogg project? Ogg has Vorbis but no lossless codec, and FLAC is already >production quality. You've already written the code to wrap FLAC in an >Ogg bitstream.