Re: [flac-dev] (no subject)

2013-06-12 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Janne Hyvärinen wrote: > On 10.6.2013 22:27, Marcus Johnson wrote: > > Also, shouldn't the changelog feature the 4GB windows fix? I remember > > reading about that bug fix at the start of 1.3.0, and I for one was > > incredibly excited about it. > > > > if nobody remembers it I can try to hunt d

[flac-dev] Question from Argentina

2013-06-12 Thread Federico Miyara
Dear Friends, I am new to this mailing list. I am with the National University of Rosario, Argentina, and I am writing a book on software-based acoustical measurements, which includes a chapter on FLAC for archival and streaming purposes from an remote embedded system including a sensor. I w

Re: [flac-dev] flac-dev Digest, Vol 103, Issue 7

2013-06-12 Thread Marcus Johnson
Here's the patch submit message for 4GB+ windows barrier. http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail//flac-dev/2013-March/003804.html On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:00 PM, wrote: > Send flac-dev mailing list submissions to > flac-dev@xiph.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, vis

Re: [flac-dev] Question from Argentina

2013-06-12 Thread Ulrich Klauer
Federico Miyara wrote: > I would like to ask why the seekpoint information in the seek table > metadata block reserves 64 bit for the number of first sample in > target frame and for the offset of the first byte of target frame. > > It seems to me a lot, since 2^64 = 1.84e+19, i.e., far more sampl

Re: [flac-dev] Question from Argentina

2013-06-12 Thread Federico Miyara
Dear Ulrich, 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'

Re: [flac-dev] Question from Argentina

2013-06-12 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
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) limi

Re: [flac-dev] Question from Argentina

2013-06-12 Thread Federico Miyara
Dear Erik, >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

Re: [flac-dev] Question from Argentina

2013-06-12 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Federico Miyara wrote: > Fact is that FLAC is highly economical in items such as reserving 20 > bits for sampling rate or 3 bits in the middle of the middle of a > byte for number of channels (which are, in fact, currently too few > for applications such as beamforming that use arrays of severa