Comments on: International Herald Tribune talks FLAC and Shorten

By: Luca Barbato

Luca Barbato — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:11:05 +0000

I’d have a look in getting flac working in hybrid mode as you can see wavpack does.

This way you can just stream something like this using h264 SVC (I hope Dirac will provide similar feature soonish since it’s planned iirc) and wavpack or other hybrid codecs (I’m not sure if ghost would provide something like that or would worth adding this feature to vorbis)

- main video stream lossy
- secondary video stream providing enhancement layers

- main audio stream lossy,
- secondary audio stream providing lossless residues.

if you don’t care about the highest quality you can just fetch the main streams, if your devices can handle the enhanced stuff you can get everything.

By: Tim Muller

Tim Muller — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:18:43 +0000

This is the article in case anyone’s interested:

The End User
The Web is awash in anti-MP3 audiophiles
by Victoria Shannon
Published: September 5, 2007

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/05/business/ptend06.php

The IHT seems to be quite open source / linux friendly in general, a few months back they even had an article with ‘Linux’ in the headline on the front page.

By: Maik Merten

Maik Merten — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:28:04 +0000

Although multichannel FLAC for sure would be nice to have I don’t quite see the point of combining a lossy video codec with a lossless audio codec. Multichannel FLAC may happen to use as much bandwidth as the video itself and I’d say that wastes some precious bits you may otherwise use on improving video quality.

Having a multichannel-tuned Vorbis AND having a multichannel FLAC - that would rock

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:17:28 +0000

Multichannel FLAC, that would rock!