- From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 10:45:51 +0200
- To: www-svg@w3.org
jeremy@asofok.org wrote:
> It'd be nice if SVG 1.2 mandated support for a lossless audio
> format. Maybe FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/)?
http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
:
"FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) maintains a lossless audio compression
codec suitable for preserving audio without sacrificing any audio quality.
The FLAC project joined Xiph.org in late January, in 2003."
http://flac.sourceforge.net/
http://flac.sourceforge.net/goals.html
:
" Goals
* FLAC should be and stay an open format with an open-source
reference implementation.
* FLAC should be lossless. This seems obvious but lossy compression
seems to creep into every audio codec. This goal also means that
flac should stay archival quality and be truly lossless for all
input. Testing of releases should be thorough.
* FLAC should yield respectable compression, on par or better than
other lossless codecs.
* FLAC should allow at least realtime decoding on even modest
hardware.
* FLAC should support fast sample-accurate seeking.
* FLAC should allow gapless playback of consecutive streams. This
follows from the lossless goal.
[...]"
Sounds good.
The Ogg people http://www.vorbis.com/ also have (a) video format(s) in
the works.
Tobi
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Received on Wednesday, 7 May 2003 04:47:00 UTC