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Would you kindly explain why do we need YAMF (Yet Another Media Format) when we already have FLAC?
by edem 11y ago
Would you kindly explain why do we need YAMF (Yet Another Media Format) when we already have FLAC?
- wtetzner 11y agoThe README says "Part of my ongoing project about writing a lossless audio encoder" so it sounds like it's meant to be educational.
- cmdrfred 11y agoWhy do we need another blog platform when we have Xanga? Why do we need another search engine when we have Altavista?
- anigbrowl 11y agoIt's a reasonable question - the proponent of a new technology should be able to articulate the benefit it brings. FLAC does have the merits of being lossless, open, royalty-free, stable, widespread, and extensible. Of course I wouldn't discourage anyone from developing their own codec as a learning exercise, but essentially the format war is over, FLAC won, and it's hard to think of use cases for any plausible alternatives. On the other hand, there's still plenty of room to make one's mark in the video space.
- cmdrfred 11y agoI feel a personal project of this complexity is worthy of peer review. That's why I up voted it. I don't think its fair to evaluate it outside of its own context at this stage. This is an open source project, not a start up.
- edem 11y agoI was not talking about blogging platforms and search engines. As another commenter said FLAC has everything we need. A lot of blogging platforms / search engines are as far from perfect as possible.