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diff --git a/audio/flac/pkg-descr b/audio/flac/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..03576ee314da --- /dev/null +++ b/audio/flac/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. The FLAC project consists of: + + - the stream format + - libFLAC, a library which implements a reference encoder, stream decoder, + and file decoder + - flac, which is a command-line wrapper around libFLAC to encode and + decode .flac files + - input plugins for various music players (Winamp, XMMS, and more in the + works) + +What FLAC is: + - FLAC is patent free + - FLAC is lossless + - FLAC is designed to compress audio data + - The compression capabilities of FLAC are extendable + - The currently implemented compression methods in the reference encoder + yield streams smaller than shorten + - FLAC is asymmetric in favor of decode speed + - FLAC is suitable for archiving + - FLAC is suitable for streaming + - FLAC supports fast sample-accurate seeking + - FLAC has an extendable metadata system + +WWW: http://flac.sourceforge.net/ |