[alsa-devel] [ANNOUNCE] fcplay: compressed audio test utility

[Vinod Koul]

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!
> > 
> > [1]: git at github.com:vinodkoul/fcplay.git
> > https://github.com/vinodkoul/fcplay/
> 
> 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.

-- 
~Vinod