Federico Miyara wrote: > Thanks for your answer. > > >Well, today 4 GiB is about half an hour of 8-channel, 96 kHz, 24-bit > >uncompressed audio, or about 0.9 % of the capacity of a modest 2 TB > >HDD. Not much, in other words, and who hasn't cursed yet at artificial > >4 GiB (or even 2 GiB) limitations? So I wouldn't be too sure about the > >"ever", even though it does seem very far away at the moment. > > OK, I get the point, but even at 192 kb/s, 32 bit sample resolution > and say... about 100 channels (but by the very definition of a sample > count one should consider one sample per frame, even if it has 100 > subframes) one would have room for a 7616 year file!
Its not that we need space for 7616 years, its that if we only use 32 bit offsets, then we would be limited to files of 2 Gigabytes (signed 32 bit integer) is simply not enough. For instance, at 96kHz/24 bits, recording 8 channels would chew up the 2Gigabytes in about 15 minutes. Some songs are longer than that, If 32 bits is not enough, the next logical amount is 64 bits. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
