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#138191 - 29/01/2003 17:45 FLAC is now part of Xiph now
tman carpal tunnel Registered: 24/12/2001 Posts: 5528	According to this press release from Xiph, the FLAC codec is now part of them. I wonder if they'll keep the existing file format or try to make a new one with Ogg? - Trevor
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#138192 - 30/01/2003 03:50 Re: FLAC is now part of Xiph now [Re: tman]
frog51 pooh-bah Registered: 09/08/2000 Posts: 2091 Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland	Looks like they're keeping both - they do have different purposes anyway, FLAC does what Ogg Squish was originally designed to do - Lossless compression, but Ogg Vorbis is lossy. _________________________ Rory MkIIa, blue lit buttons, memory upgrade, 1Tb in Subaru Forester STi MkII, 240Gb in Mark Lord dock MkII, 80Gb SSD in dock
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#138193 - 30/01/2003 04:43 Re: FLAC is now part of Xiph now [Re: frog51]
tman carpal tunnel Registered: 24/12/2001 Posts: 5528	From what I remember there is an overall Ogg file format. You can have individual streams inside that of different types. Like FLAC, Vorbis etc... I was wondering if they would convert the FLAC file format to fit into Ogg. - Trevor
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#138194 - 31/01/2003 21:43 Re: FLAC is now part of Xiph now [Re: tman]
CityBeach new poster Registered: 09/02/2002 Posts: 15	They're going to keep both formats. FLAC has already been encapsulated in Ogg as OggFLAC. They'll keep going forward with that and the stand-alone FLAC format.
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