[alsa-devel] [ANNOUNCE] fcplay: compressed audio test utility
Hello,
I have forked the cplay test app into fcplay which is a different repo [1] licensed as LGPLv2.1. The reason for fork was me getting sick of seeing the tool miss sync word for mp3 and no support for other formats which I wanted to test. But I was lazy to start exploring all media formats and write a parser for them so I have used libavcodec to the job for me which is GPL.
The fcplay links to libavcodec to get compressed audio parameters and then uses tinycompress to send data to sound card.
It supports mp3 (no more complaints about sync words) and Flac. I will add more formats, wma etc are in the list along with gapless audio playback and support for new changes coming to gapless audio playback as discussed in audio meeting at Lyon.
As usual patches are welcome.
Jaroslav, can we add to alsa-project github as well?
Thanks
On 19-11-19, 16:56, Vinod Koul wrote:
Hello,
I have forked the cplay test app into fcplay which is a different repo [1] licensed as LGPLv2.1. The reason for fork was me getting sick of seeing the tool miss sync word for mp3 and no support for other formats which I wanted to test. But I was lazy to start exploring all media formats and write a parser for them so I have used libavcodec to the job for me which is GPL.
The fcplay links to libavcodec to get compressed audio parameters and then uses tinycompress to send data to sound card.
It supports mp3 (no more complaints about sync words) and Flac. I will add more formats, wma etc are in the list along with gapless audio playback and support for new changes coming to gapless audio playback as discussed in audio meeting at Lyon.
As usual patches are welcome.
Jaroslav, can we add to alsa-project github as well?
Here is the missing link!
[1]: git@github.com:vinodkoul/fcplay.git https://github.com/vinodkoul/fcplay/
Dne 19. 11. 19 v 13:43 Vinod Koul napsal(a):
On 19-11-19, 16:56, Vinod Koul wrote:
Hello,
I have forked the cplay test app into fcplay which is a different repo [1] licensed as LGPLv2.1. The reason for fork was me getting sick of seeing the tool miss sync word for mp3 and no support for other formats which I wanted to test. But I was lazy to start exploring all media formats and write a parser for them so I have used libavcodec to the job for me which is GPL.
The fcplay links to libavcodec to get compressed audio parameters and then uses tinycompress to send data to sound card.
It supports mp3 (no more complaints about sync words) and Flac. I will add more formats, wma etc are in the list along with gapless audio playback and support for new changes coming to gapless audio playback as discussed in audio meeting at Lyon.
As usual patches are welcome.
Jaroslav, can we add to alsa-project github as well?
Here is the missing link!
I would probably add this to the tinycompress package, too. The mixed licence is not an issue, I think.
Thanks, Jaroslav
On 26-11-19, 11:27, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
Dne 19. 11. 19 v 13:43 Vinod Koul napsal(a):
On 19-11-19, 16:56, Vinod Koul wrote:
Hello,
I have forked the cplay test app into fcplay which is a different repo [1] licensed as LGPLv2.1. The reason for fork was me getting sick of seeing the tool miss sync word for mp3 and no support for other formats which I wanted to test. But I was lazy to start exploring all media formats and write a parser for them so I have used libavcodec to the job for me which is GPL.
The fcplay links to libavcodec to get compressed audio parameters and then uses tinycompress to send data to sound card.
It supports mp3 (no more complaints about sync words) and Flac. I will add more formats, wma etc are in the list along with gapless audio playback and support for new changes coming to gapless audio playback as discussed in audio meeting at Lyon.
As usual patches are welcome.
Jaroslav, can we add to alsa-project github as well?
Here is the missing link!
I would probably add this to the tinycompress package, too. The mixed licence is not an issue, I think.
That depends on who you talk to :-) Some folks seem to be averse to anything *GPL*! so adding this to tinycompress can have issues for them.
Dne 03. 12. 19 v 11:12 Vinod Koul napsal(a):
On 26-11-19, 11:27, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
Dne 19. 11. 19 v 13:43 Vinod Koul napsal(a):
On 19-11-19, 16:56, Vinod Koul wrote:
Hello,
I have forked the cplay test app into fcplay which is a different repo [1] licensed as LGPLv2.1. The reason for fork was me getting sick of seeing the tool miss sync word for mp3 and no support for other formats which I wanted to test. But I was lazy to start exploring all media formats and write a parser for them so I have used libavcodec to the job for me which is GPL.
The fcplay links to libavcodec to get compressed audio parameters and then uses tinycompress to send data to sound card.
It supports mp3 (no more complaints about sync words) and Flac. I will add more formats, wma etc are in the list along with gapless audio playback and support for new changes coming to gapless audio playback as discussed in audio meeting at Lyon.
As usual patches are welcome.
Jaroslav, can we add to alsa-project github as well?
Here is the missing link!
I would probably add this to the tinycompress package, too. The mixed licence is not an issue, I think.
That depends on who you talk to :-) Some folks seem to be averse to anything *GPL*! so adding this to tinycompress can have issues for them.
I mean that you can add a new tool to tinycompress with the LGPL-only licence. It depends on the packager/user if he/she accepts it. So, dual BSD/LGPL licence by default and LGPL-only to fcplay. You may place this tool to src/utils-lgpl directory or so.
Jaroslav
On 03-12-19, 11:23, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
Dne 03. 12. 19 v 11:12 Vinod Koul napsal(a):
On 26-11-19, 11:27, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
Dne 19. 11. 19 v 13:43 Vinod Koul napsal(a):
On 19-11-19, 16:56, Vinod Koul wrote:
Hello,
I have forked the cplay test app into fcplay which is a different repo [1] licensed as LGPLv2.1. The reason for fork was me getting sick of seeing the tool miss sync word for mp3 and no support for other formats which I wanted to test. But I was lazy to start exploring all media formats and write a parser for them so I have used libavcodec to the job for me which is GPL.
The fcplay links to libavcodec to get compressed audio parameters and then uses tinycompress to send data to sound card.
It supports mp3 (no more complaints about sync words) and Flac. I will add more formats, wma etc are in the list along with gapless audio playback and support for new changes coming to gapless audio playback as discussed in audio meeting at Lyon.
As usual patches are welcome.
Jaroslav, can we add to alsa-project github as well?
Here is the missing link!
I would probably add this to the tinycompress package, too. The mixed licence is not an issue, I think.
That depends on who you talk to :-) Some folks seem to be averse to anything *GPL*! so adding this to tinycompress can have issues for them.
I mean that you can add a new tool to tinycompress with the LGPL-only licence. It depends on the packager/user if he/she accepts it. So, dual BSD/LGPL licence by default and LGPL-only to fcplay. You may place this tool to src/utils-lgpl directory or so.
Okay that sounds great to me. Let me try doing that instead!
Thanks
On 03-12-19, 16:34, Vinod Koul wrote:
On 03-12-19, 11:23, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
Hi Jaraslav,
I mean that you can add a new tool to tinycompress with the LGPL-only licence. It depends on the packager/user if he/she accepts it. So, dual BSD/LGPL licence by default and LGPL-only to fcplay. You may place this tool to src/utils-lgpl directory or so.
Okay that sounds great to me. Let me try doing that instead!
I have added this to tinycompress and made it enable only if people configure with --enable-fcplay flag.
Thanks
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