hi,
Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:25:34PM +0200, Marc-Olivier Barre wrote:
>> I been thinking of the same thing... can't ardour handle FLAC files
>> natively ?
>
> Nope.
>
>> a simple script in <you-name-it> language calling flac to
>> to compress the audio and change the session file to match the new
>> names should work I think.
>>
>> Thoughts anyone ?
>
> That'd be nice but as I said earlier, FLAC can't handle Ardour's wav
> files:
>
> pw@email-addr-hidden sounds $ flac Audio\ 1-1.wav
>
> flac 1.1.2, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005 Josh Coalson
> flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and
> you are
> welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `flac' for
> details.
>
> options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3
> Audio 1-1.wav: ERROR: unsupported compression type 3
Seems that ardor uses WAVE_FORMAT_IEEE_FLOAT and flac can only do pcm.
http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#general__samples
That make flac not idea for that purpose. If one still wants to do that,
gstreamer could do the converion and en/decoding.
Stefan
>
>
> But as pointed out earlier in the thread, wavpack is open source and
> it seems to work.
>
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