[Flac-dev] Idea to possibly improve flac?

Brian Waters
Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:15:36 -0000

I'm busy 'till Monday morning but I'll break out the ole'
diffy-q's
textbook next week and do some background reading, thanks. Any clues
on where in the code to look in order to put those hooks in?

- Brian




On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:08 PM, J?rgen Vigdal <jorgen at anion.no>
wrote:
> Hi Brian.
>
> Thanks for liking the idea.
>
> The code for doing this, could actually be fairly easy. If you start
researching on what a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is, and understand how to
implement a rough algorithm on this, you could easily add a test in the code,
before the encoder kicks in, and prompt a message to the user, that it should be
aware that the file could not be compressed, because it might already have been
compressed.
>
> If you need help implementing a FFT, I'd be happy to help out.
>
> I think the codebase is frozen because the development have ceased?
>
> - J?rgen.
>
> On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:03 PM, Brian Waters wrote:
>
>> I like this idea. I've been looking for an open source project to
get
>> my feet wet with. I'd love to work on the FLAC library, but I
don't
>> know jack s**t about compression algorithms, and I've never worked
on
>> a large project before.
>>
>> If someone would help guide me in the right direction, I'd love to
do
>> some of that code.
>>
>> - Brian Waters
>>
>> PS, whats the deal with the codebase being frozen?
>
>