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

[Jaroslav Kysela]

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!
>>>
>>> [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.

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

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.