Hi Ben, Am 14.09.2012 um 13:32 schrieb Ben Rubinstein <benr...@cogapp.com>:
> On 14/09/2012 11:24, Klaus on-rev wrote: > >> Am 14.09.2012 um 12:19 schrieb Ben Rubinstein <benr...@cogapp.com>: >>> My other route is that although the player object isn't working on this >>> machine, imported audioclips do play. But the formats that I'm aware work >>> with audioclips are non-compressed, and therefore we'd have to render the >>> audio into formats which will take up a lot of space. Hence my second >>> question about any space-efficient formats that work with audioclips. >> >> the compressd AU format can be played as internal/imported Livecode sound! > > Klaus - aha, that's very helpful, thank you! > > Do you have any recommedations for software to use for conversion (especially > batch conversion) and for encoding? no, sorry, I always used QuickTime (Pro) manually for each sound. You could use Trevors wonderful QuickTIme External and write a batch processing thing yourself in LC ;-) > I'm using Audacity, which allows export with different headers and encodings > - but you have to select combinations and then see if the "OK" button is > enabled or disabled. So far the only encodings that I can find that can be > selected with AU as the header, that I think are compressed, are U-law, > A-law, ADPCM. U-law and A-law produce files exactly half the size of the > uncompressed files (but still four times the size of the mp3). U-law plays > OK through LiveCode (though noticeably softened compared to the uncompressed > or the MP3), but A-law is horribly distorted. With ADPCM, I can select this > combination, but when I try to export Audacity says it can't be exported in > this format. Hm, my sounds (just some sound effects, no speech or music, so the compression was OK for my needs) were always in U-law format. You may need to experiment a bit... > So this definitely moves me a step forward - do you know of any other > supported formats that offer either higher compression or better quality, > that can be played as internal/imported LiveCode sounds? No, only uncompressed WAV/AIFF files and the compressed AU format are supported with the "play" command on LC desktop. It IS about time that RunRev changes its multimedia engine to a REAL crossplatform solution! There may not be QuickTime for WIndows anytime soon in the future! > Many thanks, > > Ben Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
