[COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN --- [COPY] [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch. [COPY] Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing [COPY] the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by [COPY] the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text! [COPY] [COPY] ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/nikolaus/flac/flac.desc [COPY] ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf [COPY] [COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify [COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by [COPY] the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or [COPY] (at your option) any later version. A copy of the GNU General Public [COPY] License can be found at Documentation/COPYING. [COPY] [COPY] Many people helped and are helping developing ROCK Linux. Please [COPY] have a look at http://www.rocklinux.org/ and the Documentation/TEAM [COPY] file for details. [COPY] [COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END --- [I] An Free Lossless Audio Codec [T] Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning [T] that audio is compressed in FLAC without throwing away any information. [T] This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much [T] better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, [T] [T] FLAC consists of: [T] - `libFLAC', a library which implements reference encoders and [T] decoders, and a metadata interface [T] - `libFLAC++', a C++ object wrapper library around libFLAC [T] - `libOggFLAC' and `libOggFLAC++', which provide encoders and [T] decoders for FLAC streams in an Ogg container [T] - `flac', a command-line program for encoding and decoding files [T] - `metaflac', a command-line program for editing FLAC metadata [T] - player plugins for XMMS and Winamp [T] - user and API documentation [U] http://flac.sourceforge.net [A] Josh Coalson [M] Nikolaus Filus [M] Rene Rebe [C] extra/multimedia [L] LGPL [S] Stable [V] 1.1.0 [P] X -----5---9 481.000 [D] 3063045381 flac-1.1.0.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/flac/