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

[Dominique Michel]

Le Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:25:12 +0300,
"Peter Lemenkov" <lemenkov at gmail.com> a écrit :

> 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).

Can it be related to this bug:
 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1501394&group_id=249&atid=100249

> 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).
> 

That's right. And it is fine to see folk that know what fascism is all about:
the fusion of the power of the state with the power of the commercial
societies. (It is not from me but from Mussolini)
> > 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
>
Welcome on board, it is done.

Ciao,
Dominique 

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