[hpsdr] I/Q recording with "FLAC" compression

[Chris Albertson]

Mostly is the programmer uses the "right" library for reading/writing
the audio files then the library allows almost any audio format to be
supported and for the most part the programmer does not need to know
anything about which audio file type is being used.  What I'm saying
is that you can support FLAC without needing to know much about FLAC.

It does more then just save disk space, It reduced the amont id
reading and writing to/from the disk which means you can use a lower
performance disk drive or a less powerful computer because yo are
moving only half as much data.

Yes fixing WinRad seems a lot smarter than using Audacity to compress
the data after the fact.

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Ken N9VV
> The FLAC file will not "play" with any SDR software, so I used Audacity
> again to re-convert the FLAC file back to .wav and then played it through
> WinRad to see that it retained the signal integrity.
>
> I hope that the talented programmers in the OpenHPSDR group will consider
> the Open Source FLAC compression for I/Q recording in the future. While it
> may seem to be a bit rare and exotic, it certainly does a magnificent job of
> compression for these typically large I/Q files.  I see on the Perseus group
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Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California

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