[Flac-dev] Support for CAF in flac command-line?

Josh Coalson
Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:20:18 -0000

--- Martin Leese <martin.leese at stanfordalumni.org> wrote:

> Brian Willoughby <brianw at sounds.wa.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Is anyone here potentially up to the task of adding support for CAF
> > (the CoreAudio Format) into the flac command-line?
> ...
> > I've already made some recordings
> > that are so long that they cannot be uncompressed from FLAC to WAV
> or
> > AIFF because they would exceed 4 GB - the maximum file size for
> those
> > formats.  CAF does not have the same 4 GB limitations.
>
> Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la at mega-nerd.com> wrote:
> ...
> > Whats more, the sndfile-convert program can also convert
> > from FLAC to the following file formats that support 63 bit
> > file offsets:
> >
> >    Au, Caf, rf64, w64
>
> I am glad somebody mentioned RF64.
> Supporting RF64 instead of CAF would solve
> Brian's problem equally well, and would be the
> natural extension to supporting WAVE.

BTW current flac in CVS supports RF64 and wave64; they will be
in the next release.  I'll have to look into CAF.