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The FLAC spec hasn't previously documented channel
definitions for 7 and 8 channel files, making it
difficult to encode 6.1 an 7.1 audio. This makes
that definition.

The choice is based on popular surround configurations
for home theatre and gaming, using the Microsoft
WAVEX order, which most tools use internally.
Signed-off-by: Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@mega-nerd.com>

Thanks to kfish for pointing out the problem.

This reverts commit 9270edaf.

Didn't notice this was in my local tree. We don't have
a decision on this yet.

replaced cvs-links by git-links and changing most links to the bug tracker with the new sourceforge link-style (for example replaced http://sourceforge.net/tracker/.... with http://sourceforge.net/p/flac/support-requests/)
Signed-off-by: Ralph Giles <giles@xiph.org>

The FLAC spec hasn't previously documented channel
definitions for 7 and 8 channel files, making it
difficult to encode 6.1 an 7.1 audio. This makes
that definition.

The choice is based on popular surround configurations
for home theatre and gaming, using the Microsoft
WAVEX order, which most tools use internally.

In 2007, the Electronic Frontier Foundation discontinued their
Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression in favour of more
general work in Free Speech and file trading rights.

The cafe link is now 404, and the P2P page it used to redirect
to doesn't seem especially relevant to flac.