Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] File interchange with ProTools?
From: Paul Winkler (slinkp23_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Aug 11 2000 - 19:32:06 EEST
Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
> I understood the licence so that we may still write the library from
> scratch by ourself. We only have to find out what is the AAF file
> formats. We already have the API specs as they can be found from
> the webpage.
Oh, I see. I hope you're right. licenses, bleah.
> In any case, because it looks the exact file format is not told in specs,
> I'm looking at doing my own AAF clone. It would not be compatible but
> the API would be the same. Then it is a small step to make it AAF
> compatible later. (Of course, if ever I get those AAF source codes
> unpacked, I could look the exact file formats from the source.)
>
> In no case would that be a wasted time because similar routines are needed
> in a multitrack editor and the like. And we need such standard to Linux
> too, our or their.
I agree. And your approach seems sensible. But I do think 100%
compatibility should be the goal... there are two things we'd gain:
1) linux implementation of a (I hope) well-thought-out DAW &
multimedia file format
2) file exchange with other platforms & systems.
I think 2 is equally important as 1 if we want to be able to take
our work to/from other studios.
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