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Why no FLAC support on recent Blu-Ray devices?
krafty
post Jan 13 2012, 16:11
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I've been watching recent releases of Blu-Ray players and most of them just ignore lossless formats like FLAC, WavPack and so on.
They ship with MP3 and some are shipping with AAC support, but FLAC is a dream...

Any logic reason besides contractual ties with proprietary formats?
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saratoga
post Jan 16 2012, 17:55
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I remember back in the day the company that made the chips inside of the 3G (or 4G) iPod worked with WMA but Apple locked that out through the iPod's firmware.


It wasn't "locked out" exactly. Rather Apple didn't purchase the WMA software from Microsoft, so there was no WMA decoder included. Eventually I ported the ffmpeg one to those chips, and it of course worked fine. They're just CPUs, they don't care what code they run so long as its compatible with the processor's instruction set and memory.
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- krafty   Why no FLAC support on recent Blu-Ray devices?   Jan 13 2012, 16:11
- - polemon   Usually, they use decoder chips which are basicall...   Jan 13 2012, 16:27
|- - saratoga   QUOTE (polemon @ Jan 13 2012, 10:27) Usua...   Jan 13 2012, 17:34
|- - polemon   QUOTE (saratoga @ Jan 13 2012, 17:34) The...   Jan 15 2012, 03:58
|- - saratoga   QUOTE (polemon @ Jan 14 2012, 21:58) QUOT...   Jan 15 2012, 21:39
||- - knutinh   QUOTE (saratoga @ Jan 15 2012, 22:39) Not...   Jan 18 2012, 17:24
||- - saratoga   QUOTE (knutinh @ Jan 18 2012, 11:24) The ...   Jan 18 2012, 19:10
||- - knutinh   QUOTE (saratoga @ Jan 18 2012, 20:10) Not...   Jan 18 2012, 21:54
||- - saratoga   QUOTE (knutinh @ Jan 18 2012, 15:54) Havi...   Jan 18 2012, 22:21
|- - probedb   QUOTE (polemon @ Jan 15 2012, 02:58) kraf...   Jan 16 2012, 09:21
- - Brand   I'd say the most likely explanation is that th...   Jan 13 2012, 17:07
|- - JJZolx   QUOTE (Brand @ Jan 13 2012, 09:07) I...   Jan 15 2012, 21:05
|- - eahm   QUOTE (JJZolx @ Jan 15 2012, 13:05) QUOTE...   Oct 23 2012, 17:24
- - krafty   polemon, what you wrote makes sense. I also see th...   Jan 15 2012, 19:42
- - kornchild2002   I think there was a time when the chips used in DA...   Jan 16 2012, 15:34
|- - Soap   I'm not sure it's crystal that SoC = Syste...   Jan 16 2012, 15:45
- - kornchild2002   I was trying to show that the SoC the iPad uses do...   Jan 16 2012, 17:05
- - saratoga   QUOTE I remember back in the day the company that ...   Jan 16 2012, 17:55
- - kornchild2002   OK. I wasn't sure if those were hardware driv...   Jan 17 2012, 00:10
- - saratoga   No these devices generally do not have hardware as...   Jan 17 2012, 03:28
- - saratoga   Incidentally, the reason so many of these devices ...   Jan 17 2012, 03:41
|- - Brand   QUOTE (saratoga @ Jan 17 2012, 03:41) Inc...   Jan 17 2012, 12:06
|- - saratoga   QUOTE (Brand @ Jan 17 2012, 06:06) QUOTE ...   Jan 17 2012, 18:45
- - Vinyl   QUOTE (krafty @ Jan 13 2012, 16:11) I...   Oct 23 2012, 13:54
- - krafty   As of 2012 this has changed. All current Panasonic...   Oct 23 2012, 20:02

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