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

Martin Leese
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:59:26 -0000

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.

Regards,
Martin
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