11 Aug
2004
11 Aug
'04
7:37 a.m.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Jason McBrien wrote:
What shall we do with analog audio? Sample at 44.1KHz
/ 16-bit PCM and call
it done?
I thought about that. In that case, I'd be inclined to store it as either
a byte stream (since writing it back out to the original medium will mean
recording it back to tape) or as level transitions or tones. Again, the
spec should be able to handle this.
What about Laserdisc video? It's straight
composite analog video,
which could be digitized at a standard rate for reproduction. Yes these
corner cases matter, if we are doing a truly multiformat media archive
storage architecture. (Dragon's Lair anyone? Voyager space mission disc?)
Hmmm. This will certainly have to be argued out.
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