Re: [Trisquel-users] Voxware MetaSound works!

[greatgnu]

There's nothing a recent version of mpv can't play. Best player bar none :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Voxware MetaSound works!

[Adam Worthy]

n...@address.com:

> I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to find out that the file I
> downloaded played back perfectly on Hyperbola GNU/Linux using MPlayer
> and mpv without using non-free binary codecs.

I can confirm it works on Parabola as well.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Voxware MetaSound works!

[calmstorm]

hmm... I suppose that makes sense. Yep it works for me too. Good ol  
Hyperbola!

[Trisquel-users] Voxware MetaSound works!

[alonivtsan]

Several years ago I wondered whether this obscure format could be played back  
using a free audio decoder (I downloaded such a file that according to its  
metadata was encoded in 2000):


https://trisquel.info/en/forum/voxware-metasound-playback

I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to find out that the file I downloaded  
played back perfectly on Hyperbola GNU/Linux using MPlayer and mpv without  
using non-free binary codecs.


Apparently, FFmpeg developed an encoder for this format in version 2.2 (which  
was released in 2014), probably 10+ years after this format was commonly used  
for distributing online audio, and both MPlayer and mpv apparently use  
FFmpeg's decoder to playback the audio.


You can find a few samples in this format here to see if your video player  
supports it:


http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/VoxWare/