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

[Jaroslav Kysela]

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.

					Thanks,
						Jaroslav

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