On 12-01-13 22:46, Brian Willoughby wrote: > I would suggest that everyone keep in mind the vast installed base of > hardware FLAC recorders and players, and not senselessly make them > obsolete without extremely compelling reasons.
This can be done for the same reason the change from 1.1 to 1.2 added a new form of residue coding: I don't believe there are many 7 or 8 channel FLAC-players out there (just like there were not much 24-bit FLAC decoding devices out there when 1.2 came out). We still are at a point we can still make those changes. Josh made a decision at some point to map audio channels instead of storing the order in metadata. I think it was a sound decision because the channel order is known without the need for that piece of metadata, for example in case of streaming. It would be silly to keep this behaviour on currently defined channels and do something else on 7 and 8 channel audio. We might try to find out how current 7.1 hardware decoders behave with regard to channel mapping. _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
