[Flac-dev] Idea to possibly improve flac?

Jørgen Vigdal
Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:08:58 -0000

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?