Hello, my name is Christopher Timko. I am currently a Senior at the University of Arkansas majoring in computer engineering. As part of our graduation requirements, we must complete a design project. Students are encouraged to chose open source technology, since a network of development exists for most of these ideas. I have decided to investigate the feasibility of creating a hardware audio encoder that would record in the flac codec, and i was curious if you could give me some information. Because of my lack of knowledge with audio codecs, i was first wondering if flac encoding could be done on the fly, or if a sound file would first have to be recorded in an uncompressed (wav) format, and then converted to flac. Also, I was wondering if there are some general web resources that talk about sound encoding, and possible hardware implementation. thanks for your help, Christopher Timko
--- Chris Timko <cstimko@uark.edu> wrote:> Hello, my name is Christopher Timko. I am currently a Senior at the > University of Arkansas majoring in computer engineering. As part of > our > graduation requirements, we must complete a design project. Students > are > encouraged to chose open source technology, since a network of > development > exists for most of these ideas. I have decided to investigate the > feasibility > of creating a hardware audio encoder that would record in the flac > codec, and > i was curious if you could give me some information. > Because of my lack of knowledge with audio codecs, i was first > wondering if > flac encoding could be done on the fly, or if a sound file would > first have to > be recorded in an uncompressed (wav) format, and then converted to > flac.at some point before encoding to FLAC the audio will have to be converted to linear PCM if it is not already.> Also, I was wondering if there are some general web resources that > talk about > sound encoding, and possible hardware implementation.you might find some useful HDL code on http://www.opencores.org/ Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree