Hi Flac Developers, My name is Etienne Deleflie, I'm the founder of http://www.ambisonia.com and, more recently, http://soundofspace.com. Myself and the community I serve are looking for a lossless file format that can encapsulate ambisonic encoding. To this end a specification has been drafted, and is nearing stability, that describes practical features designed to get the most out of ambisonics. That spec is accessible here: http://ambisonics.googlegroups.com/web/Universal_Ambisonic_0.96.pdf I'm wondering if the FLAC community might be interested in implementing a lossless implementation of that spec. I know there are some current incompatibilities. I'm also aware that there are certain open source processes involved around implementing new features. I'd be happy to get involved with those processes if someone expressed interest at implementing these features. regards, Etienne
--- On Thu, 9/17/09, e deleflie <edeleflie at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi Flac Developers, > > My name is Etienne Deleflie, I'm the founder of > http://www.ambisonia.com and, more recently, http://soundofspace.com. > > Myself and the community I serve are looking for a lossless file > format that can encapsulate ambisonic encoding. To this end a > specification has been drafted, and is nearing stability, that > describes practical features designed to get the most out of > ambisonics. > > That spec is accessible here: > http://ambisonics.googlegroups.com/web/Universal_Ambisonic_0.96.pdf > > I'm wondering if the FLAC community might be interested in > implementing a lossless implementation of that spec. I know there are > some current incompatibilities. I'm also aware that there are certain > open source processes involved around implementing new features. I'd > be happy to get involved with those processes if someone expressed > interest at implementing these features.this is cool but would actually be a lot of work and require extensions to the flac format. it's not something that I would be able to do for the foreseeable future.
Hi Josh, The minimum things that Flac would need to implement to satisfy the 'file implementations' part of the spec is a bit of metadata and the extensions to channel counts. ok, I do realise that the extending the maximum channel count may be difficult ... there's gotta be a way to do it though. Etienne On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Josh Coalson <xflac at yahoo.com> wrote:> --- On Thu, 9/17/09, e deleflie <edeleflie at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Flac Developers, >> >> My name is Etienne Deleflie, I'm the founder of >> http://www.ambisonia.com and, more recently, ?http://soundofspace.com. >> >> Myself and the community I serve are looking for a lossless file >> format that can encapsulate ambisonic encoding. To this end a >> specification has been drafted, and is nearing stability, that >> describes practical features designed to get the most out of >> ambisonics. >> >> That spec is accessible here: >> http://ambisonics.googlegroups.com/web/Universal_Ambisonic_0.96.pdf >> >> I'm wondering if the FLAC community might be interested in >> implementing a lossless implementation of that spec. I know there are >> some current incompatibilities. I'm also aware that there are certain >> open source processes involved around implementing new features. I'd >> be happy to get involved with those processes if someone expressed >> interest at implementing these features. > > this is cool but would actually be a lot of work and require extensions > to the flac format. ?it's not something that I would be able to do for > the foreseeable future. > > > > >