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mikelebron
8th June 2009, 03:51
I love the quality of madflac but on my 64 bit system I would like an alternative. Any recommendations for a 64 bit FLAC decoder alternative to madflac?
Blue_MiSfit
8th June 2009, 10:46
any particular reason you have to run 64 bit players / decoders / filters???
clsid
8th June 2009, 11:55
The Xiph package is available as 64-bit and contains a FLAC decoder.

It is recommended to stick to 32-bit codecs whenever possible. The 64-bit alternatives are just not a good yet in quantity and quality.
mikelebron
9th June 2009, 03:01
yes.. I want to run flac from my WMC... My HTPC is 32 bit so I am very familair with the issues and challenges but my main machine which I encode, demux, etc. is 64 bit and like to test out movies/plugins, etc on my main machine before I move that setting over the HTPC. Would be a nice to hear my MKVs which are encoded with flac audio.

Soooo... any stand alone FLAC decoders?
Adub
9th June 2009, 08:31
32-bit flac decoders should work fine running on 64bit actually. You don't actually need a 64 bit decoder. I know plenty of people who run ffdshow 32bit on a 64bit OS.
Blue_MiSfit
9th June 2009, 12:25
Myself being one of them :)

No real advantage to running 64 bit playback AFAIK...

~MiSfit
Jeff Flowerday
9th June 2009, 15:47
He wants to use VMC. VMC is 64 bit, no way around that on 64 bit Vista. Telling him that the 32 bit works fine isn't solving his problem.

So...

Try the 64 bit version of ffdshow. Though I'm not sure if it's still downconverting to 16 bit or not, haven't really been keeping up.
clsid
9th June 2009, 16:16
ffdshow does not play FLAC files.
Jeff Flowerday
9th June 2009, 18:15
ffdshow does not play FLAC files.

Who said files?
mikelebron
10th June 2009, 03:01
Jeff your a scholar and a gentlemen.. at least one person tried to lead me on the right direction.... ffdshow worked great... I am using ffdshow ONLY for FLAC 64 bit and madflac for 32 bit... looks like ffdshow 64 supports up to 32 bit FLAC and all channels. I did a graph comparison between 32 bit with mad flac and 64 bit with ffdshow and all came up the same under in the audio renderer - which matched the "mediaInfo" of my mkv. In theory they should sound the same.. - but this is my work horse machine and dont have it hooked up to a stereo but now I can do what I went out to do... Thanks again!