[Alsaplayer-devel] TTA plugin (was Hello All!)

[Peter Lemenkov]

2007/2/10, Dominique Michel <dominique.michel at citycable.ch>:

> I am still downloading some ape, tta and wavpack files in order to do more
> test, but at least the wc and ape plugin don't seem to cause any trouble with
> Alsaplayer.

I personally use them dayly with my own media library which consists
of 900+ lostlessly compressed images of CDs (downloaded via
p2p-networx) - many of them decoded using APE, WavPack or FLAC
encoders.

So far I found only one major bug in my WavPack-decoder (unfortunately
still not fixed) - wrong played time. Also all my plugins suffer from
lack of metadata support (tags etc).

And not so long ago I downloaded 96kHz+24bit+4.1 image of SACD of
something similar - it is encoded using WavPack and my plugin still
incapable of playint this. :)

> Is it other peoples that can report on those plugins?

Let's wait a bit.

> I thing at we can try to incorporate at least the ape and wavpack plugin in
> the tree.

I wish to include only wavpack. APE-decoder uses infamous original
library which has a questionable license. So it must be distributed
outside main tree or we create difficulties for major linux distros

Similar problem with mp3-decoder too - we should do something with
fact that mp3-decodinf software is not allowed in some countries with
fascist copyrigth laws (USA for example). I think that we may slightly
rewrite mp3-decoder so that it loads mad-library at runtime. Simirar
technique used in Fedora Code for libdvdread, which loads libdvdcss
and if  (DeCSS is prohibited in USA).

> It will be some work needed on the makefiles. I can give you
> developer access if you want to do that, but be very careful with the make
> system, it is very sensitive. I can try to do that if you are not sure.

Yes. Please provide me some rw-acces to svn.
My sf-name is peter_lemenkov

http://sourceforge.net/users/peter_lemenkov/

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With best regards!