Dear FLAC developers, I'm a student at CSU Dominguez Hills and I'm doing a research paper about "codecs for streaming HD audio" for my audio recording class. I'm curious if you folks could answer a few questions or offer any important information, technical or otherwise, about your popular lossless codec. It would be great if I could get an official reference. I will of course cite your name(s). I am wondering: 1. Does the FLAC codec support streaming? 2. Does the FLAC codec support high definition audio, that is 24-bit/96Khz audio or better, or at least quality better than that of a CD? 3. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of the FLAC codec, as compared to other codecs such as WMA Lossless or Apple's ALAC? Or if you cannot share information about disadvantages, then what does FLAC do very well, and what applications is it not designed for? If you would like to add anything else that you feel I should include then please do. May I also use the official FLAC documentation? I will cite Mr. Coalson. Thank you so much for your time and assistance. There is a lot of information on the web, but I have had a difficult time finding reliable information about this topic. Respectfully, Casey Geist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20090225/7e37e4a9/attachment.htm
The official FLAC site has answers to your questions and many others. There is extensive documentation which you should read through in order to get familiar with the format, as well as a FAQ. Answer to #1 found: http://flac.sourceforge.net/features.html Answer to #2 found: http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html Answer to #3 found: http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html That entire site is very reliable. The author of FLAC has not made any outlandish claims about capabilities, so you can trust what you read there. If you're doing a research paper, I would suggest that you read every word on this site and make sure you fully understand the topic. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting P.S. If it seems like I'm being a little obtuse, be assured that it is my intention to encourage you to learn how to teach yourself how to find the answers to such things. On Feb 25, 2009, at 18:20, Casey wrote: Dear FLAC developers, I'm a student at CSU Dominguez Hills and I'm doing a research paper about "codecs for streaming HD audio" for my audio recording class. I'm curious if you folks could answer a few questions or offer any important information, technical or otherwise, about your popular lossless codec. It would be great if I could get an official reference. I will of course cite your name(s). I am wondering: 1. Does the FLAC codec support streaming? 2. Does the FLAC codec support high definition audio, that is 24-bit/ 96Khz audio or better, or at least quality better than that of a CD? 3. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of the FLAC codec, as compared to other codecs such as WMA Lossless or Apple's ALAC? Or if you cannot share information about disadvantages, then what does FLAC do very well, and what applications is it not designed for? If you would like to add anything else that you feel I should include then please do. May I also use the official FLAC documentation? I will cite Mr. Coalson. Thank you so much for your time and assistance. There is a lot of information on the web, but I have had a difficult time finding reliable information about this topic. Respectfully, Casey Geist
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Casey <deepimpact5 at yahoo.com> wrote:> Dear FLAC developers, > > I'm a student at CSU Dominguez Hills and I'm doing a research paper about > "codecs for streaming HD audio" for my audio recording class.? I'm curious > if you folks could answer a few questions or offer any important > information, technical or otherwise, about your popular lossless codec.? It > would be great if I could get an official reference.? I will of course cite > your name(s).Just for reference, an excellent point of data would be hydrogenaudio.org, though not for reference material, but there's definitely a wealth of information there. -- avuton -- | (\_/) This is Bunny. Copy and paste Bunny | (='.'=) into your signature to help him gain | (")_(") world domination.