Which is the best lossless codec?
Reply #99 – 2005-02-13 16:32:23
One sentence: competition is good. I agree. But it'll become Linux, a hundred different codec floating around ...Also, I'm pretty confident a lossless codec done by a group would suck. Josh would want slow encoding and fast decoding for hardware support. Matt would want symmetrical encoding/decoding for efficiency. Bryant would want lossy and hybrid, others wouldn't. Ghido would want the very highest compression ans screw speed. They would quarrel endlessly and noone would ever see the result of their work. [a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=272954"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a] Maybe I'm wrong about joint-force, my idea is someone take care of the interface, others the core, different platform's binary, and also optimization. I can see some of the codec creator keep doing their job well (all of them you talked about) but feel they're working alone, if each of them can have some help then they can concentrate on the codec core. Here I want to thank all those who helped them such as John33 for front-end, many other help tuning and adjust, too bad I'm still learning how to ABX so can't help. Many people STILL use WMA, I consider this is: we're losing the battle over M$, maybe we're not GOOD enough, easy to use, hardware support ... Good to hear FLAC have some hardware support, looking forward to some DVD players such as Philips or Samsung support them, great!