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

[Mark Filipak]

On 08/06/2025 14.50, Carl Zwanzig wrote:
> 
>> 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."

Hmmm... Though I'm a little prejudiced against the engineers from Eindhoven, I will go with FLAC due 
to endorsement by the US National Archives. Okay, it won't die any time soon.

Thanks, Z. I'll give FLAC a try.