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

[Vinod Koul]

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/

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~Vinod