[MPlayer-advusers] apple lossless audio codec (alac) and quicktime 6.5

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heres your need for support of quicktime 6.5 dlls...
it looks as if this codec was added in 6.5, i think it was introduced
in itunes 4.5. but i cannoy verify. codec does not decode with -ac faad
or -ac ffflac.

audiocodec qalac
  info "Quicktime Apple Lossless Audio Codec"
  status working ;requires quicktime 6.5
  format 0x63616C61
  driver qtaudio
  dll "QuickTime.qts"
  
mplayer sig8 on init audio codec with quicktime 6.5.2.10 qts version.
mplayer with quicktime.qts 6.00.0002.0010 reports

Opening audio decoder: [qtaudio] QuickTime Audio Decoder
ADecoder preinit failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x63616C61.
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uploaded sample clip to incoming/ as
quicktime-newcodec-applelosslessaudiocodec.m4a