Re: decoding ape_audiofiles

2008-05-11 Thread Nicolas George
Le tridi 23 floréal, an CCXVI, steef a écrit :
 hi list is there a (debian) way to decode .apefiles into .flac or .wav 
 under etch? just to decode some fine jazz-music by tommy flanagan.

 imo i need the mac-library, but this software seems to be unfree
 i know of shntool, lame etc.

There is a Free monkeyaudio (= .ape) decoder in libavcodec/ffmpeg. I was
about to says that it was twice slower than the proprietary official
decoder, but I just re-did a benchmark and found exactly the same decoding
time, so either my memory was wrong or its performance has increased.

This decoder was merged in libavcodec last September; current Debian version
of libavcodec dates back to last March: you will have ti build your own.
Which is advisable anyway, since the Debian version lacks a lot of encoders.

Regards,

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  Nicolas George


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Re: decoding ape_audiofiles

2008-05-11 Thread steef

Nicolas George wrote:

Le tridi 23 floréal, an CCXVI, steef a écrit :
  
hi list is there a (debian) way to decode .apefiles into .flac or .wav 
under etch? just to decode some fine jazz-music by tommy flanagan.


imo i need the mac-library, but this software seems to be unfree
i know of shntool, lame etc.



There is a Free monkeyaudio (= .ape) decoder in libavcodec/ffmpeg. I was
about to says that it was twice slower than the proprietary official
decoder, but I just re-did a benchmark and found exactly the same decoding
time, so either my memory was wrong or its performance has increased.

This decoder was merged in libavcodec last September; current Debian version
of libavcodec dates back to last March: you will have ti build your own.
Which is advisable anyway, since the Debian version lacks a lot of encoders.

Regards,

  

thanks nicolas,

i 'll do just that.

regards,

steef


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Re: decoding ape_audiofiles

2008-05-11 Thread mond
On May 11, 7:50 am, steef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 hi list is there a (debian) way to decode .apefiles into .flac or .wav
 under etch? just to decode some fine jazz-music by tommy flanagan.

 imo i need the mac-library, but this software seems to be unfree
 i know of shntool, lame etc.

 regards,

 steef

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http://www.debian-multimedia.org
has mac library I think. Try it out.


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