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Per https://xiph.org/flac/faq.html#general__channels currently FLAC supports 1 through 8 channels. This is fine for 5.1 surround sound (6 channels). But some of the newer surround sound systems can handle many more channels. Is it still convenient to have all of the audio channels in one file for, say, a 16 channel audio track? I don't know...

...__MAX_CHANNELS in > include/FLAC/format.h? > > Either of these would greatly help in reducing the storage > requirements for recording sessions. the channel grouping is mainly to take advantage of interchannel correlations. see also the FAQ: http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#general__channels you could hack the code to make non-standard FLAC with more channels but you will also have to change how the number is stored in the frame header. Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. http://personals.yahoo.com

...;t know whether Ogg is optimized for streaming such that it could interleave multiple FLAC files this way, but it's worth investigating. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Oct 28, 2016, at 6:24 PM, J.B. Nicholson <jbn at forestfield.org> wrote: > Per https://xiph.org/flac/faq.html#general__channels currently FLAC supports 1 through 8 channels. This is fine for 5.1 surround sound (6 channels). But some of the newer surround sound systems can handle many more channels. Is it still convenient to have all of the audio channels in one file for, say, a 16 channel audio track? > > I don't...

All, Lets say I have a 16 channel file, but 10 of those channels are empty (all values are 0). For a) the vorbis codec and also b) the FLAC codec ... would the size of the file be close to (or practically the same as) the size of a 6 channel file? Etienne