[FFmpeg-user] MP4s (and M4As) for music

[Carl Zwanzig]

> On Sun, Jun 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM Mark Filipak <
> markfilipak.imdb-at-gmail.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:

>>> Am 08.06.2025 um 19:47 schrieb Mark Filipak:
>>>> FLAC is not a standard. I don't trust that it will be around in the
>> future.

It is, as already covered.

>> The Internet Engineering Task Force is not an authority on the art of
>> sound storage or archival.

Not itself, but the RFC authors -do- tend to be subject matter experts 
(which is why they're the right people to write the specs).


You might look to the authors, for instance-
"Martijn van Beurden is Full Professor of 'Computational 
Electromagnetics in complex high-tech systems' in the research group 
Electromagnetics at the TU/e department of Electrical Engineering."


Or to the stated purpose of FLAC-
"The standardization process of the FLAC format into RFC 9639 was driven 
by the specific use case of archival and preservation in mind.[1] The 
National Archives and Records Administration has FLAC listed as a 
preferred format for digital audio.[2]"

[1]https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-cellar/
[2]https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/policy/transfer-guidance-tables.html


So yes, it -is- considered "archival" and -is- well documented & specified.

Later,

z!