New 1:3 lossless Audio-Codec?

[antineff]

Hi there,

somewhere I can't remember I read something about a new audio-codec, which is able to compress an PCM-stream without losses with a compressionrate of 1:3. But I can't remember it's name, nor where I read about it. Does anybody know more?

[daphy]

Maybe Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP)

Infos
http://www.5dot1.com/articles/meridian_lossless_packing.html
http://www.ambisonic.net/mlp.html
http://www.meridian-audio.com/welcome.htm

CYA Daphy

[antineff]

Hmm...

I thought I had in mind it was an open source codec, but I might be wrong.

[LnxPeng]

Ogg Flac?

http://flac.sourceforge.net/

[antineff]

Well, seems that this question has evolved into a nice quiz. :)

It surely was nothing with Ogg. Otherwise I would remember it, since I encode every sound into Ogg Vorbis. But I will take a look at Flac too though.

Edited:

Alright, I took a look. It might be, it was Flac, since it is not Ogg Flac. I'll have a try with it. If someone has some suggestions about the lossless codecs, please let me know. Or maybe someone knows a useful forum, where this topic is discussed.

Many thanks!

[Ogig]

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/

[LnxPeng]

Sorry for the confusion.....

You can have a raw FLAC stream or you can place it in an Ogg container. Either way. So technically It's not Ogg Flac unless it's in an Ogg container.

[Soulhunter]

Maybe Monkey's Audio Codec or WAV Pack ???


Bye

[jorel]

wavezip

can compress an PCM-stream without losses with a compressionrate of 1:3
or better, depend of the source....rock compress less than classicals!

WAV Pack like Soulhunter posted, can do the same i think!
i used it a long time ago, i'm in doubt.

the differences of the file sizes between mp3-256k and wavezip is too short but
wavezip is really "without losses" !

of course, to play the file you need "unzip" it.
(don't know how you want to save your files or the target)

:)

[jorel]

no more doubts,WAV Pack is seamless wavezip.

"WavPack and its associated utilities are free programs"
found link with details and download:
http://www.wavpack.com/

Using WavPack:
http://www.wavpack.com/wavpack_doc.htm

frontend:
http://members.home.nl/w.speek/wavpack.htm

;)