Re: Multi-channel with empty channels.

e deleflie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.ogg.vorbis.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> --- On Sun, 7/19/09, e deleflie <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I expect this has probably already been discussed but ....
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>> are there any plans for a >8 channel Flac implementation?...
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> no, native flac is a simple container.  if you need that many
> channels, better to mux in ogg, matroska, etc.

isn't flac a lossless codec that uses inter-channel correlation?

... or do you mean that each channel is compressed with flac (without
inter-channel correlation) but then bundled together in an other
wrapper?

Etienne

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