[FFmpeg-user] MP4s (and M4As) for music
Carl Zwanzig
cpz at tuunq.com
Sun Jun 8 21:50:43 EEST 2025
> 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!
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