Re: Flac multi channel

Olivier Tristan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.compression.flac.devel
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I see :(

That what I would call a good struct size optimisation.
Please tell me there was another reason behind this being only 3 instead of
8 or 16 bits, right ?

2017-01-25 18:30 GMT+01:00 Tor-Einar Jarnbjo <[email protected]>:

> Hello Olivier,
>
> the limitation is in the file format itself, as the number of channels is
> encoded in a 3 bit field in the streaminfo metadata block.
>
> Tor-Einar
>
> Am 25. Januar 2017 16:45:32 MEZ schrieb Olivier Tristan <[email protected]
> >:
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I know that FLAC format is currently limited to 8 channels but I was
>> wondering if this hard limitation of the format
>>
>> or if it can be easily circumvented if the flac library is compiled with
>> other settings and/or the software using it don't mind it
>>
>>
>> Thanks !
>>
>>
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