From 13cdef9d450e5a164740a57a92f723b1bd4b41c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Sabatini Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 14:20:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc/muxers: add ircam Most of the content copy&pasted from: http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Berkeley/IRCAM/Carl_Sound_Format --- doc/muxers.texi | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/muxers.texi b/doc/muxers.texi index 5cce26a43f..39597e000b 100644 --- a/doc/muxers.texi +++ b/doc/muxers.texi @@ -2682,6 +2682,24 @@ ffmpeg -f x11grab -framerate 1 -i :0.0 -q:v 6 -update 1 -protocol_opts method=PU @end example @end itemize +@section ircam +Berkeley / IRCAM / CARL Sound Filesystem (BICSF) format muxer. + +The Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL Sound Format, developed in the 1980s, is a result of the +merging of several different earlier sound file formats and systems including +the csound system developed by Dr Gareth Loy at the Computer Audio Research Lab +(CARL) at UC San Diego, the IRCAM sound file system developed by Rob Gross and +Dan Timis at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique in +Paris and the Berkeley Fast Filesystem. + +It was developed initially as part of the Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL Sound Filesystem, +a suite of programs designed to implement a filesystem for audio applications +running under Berkeley UNIX. It was particularly popular in academic music +research centres, and was used a number of times in the creation of early +computer-generated compositions. + +This muxer accepts a single audio stream containing PCM data. + @section matroska Matroska container muxer.