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diff --git a/audio/flac/pkg-descr b/audio/flac/pkg-descr index 03576ee314da..84ebeba47487 100644 --- a/audio/flac/pkg-descr +++ b/audio/flac/pkg-descr @@ -1,24 +1,14 @@ -FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. The FLAC project consists of: +FLAC is an Open Source lossless audio codec. - - 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 +FLAC is comprised of +* libFLAC, a library which implements reference encoders and + decoders, and a metadata interface +* libFLAC++, a C++ object wrapper library around libFLAC +* libOggFLAC and libOggFLAC++, which provide encoders and + decoders for FLAC streams in an Ogg container +* flac, a command-line program for encoding and decoding files +* metaflac, a command-line program for viewing and editing FLAC + metadata +* user and API documentation WWW: http://flac.sourceforge.net/ |