[gmpi] Re: Topic 7.1: Channel Formats

  • From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 17:42:58 -0700 (PDT)

> IEEE1394 etc), and it didn't handle various encodings, do you doubt
> that people would still use it? don't you think they would just sigh
> that audio manufacturers could not agree on encodings, let alone make
> them all open, royalty and license free? don't you think they'd just
> get a 2-way converter to run <your-encoding-here> into and out the
> box?
> 
> why are we doing things differently? if there are encodings that
> discard information, why are they of interest? for encodings that do
> not throw away information, why not use an alternate representation
> that is a single, standard representation (e.g. mono 32 bit float
> streams)?

All this was originally a disucssion with Bill advocating multiple
encodings.  Bill - are you here?


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