[flac-dev] (no subject)

Olav Sunde
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:10:45 -0000

At 16:26 06.02.2012, you wrote:


>On 06.02.2012 18:52, Olav Sunde wrote:
>> At 14:16 06.02.2012, you wrote:
>>
>>> Olav,
>>>
>>> A change like this could easily break the format.  That would be
>>> a bad choice.
>>
>> That makes sense. Explains why it is not there today.
>>
>>
>>> On the other hand, an informational 'application' block
could be
>>> added in a way that does not break the format, and this would
>>> even be backwards compatible since 'application' blocks
have
>>> always been a part of the specification.  You simply won't be
>>> able to rely on them being there.
>>
>> This is probably the best thing then. Adding the info will be
>> optional? It would certainly be an improvement and hopefully become
>> part of the command line description so users would know how to do
>> it.
>>
>Make a specification for storing this kind of data in app-block, then
>devise a way to measure encoding complexity of existing FLAC stream -
>and you'll be able to put these block in FLAC files that didn't have
>them originally.

This would be really useful. I hope someone will try to do this for the next
release of flac.

Olav

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