[MPlayer-users] wavpack play?

[Kichigai Mentat]

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On Jan 3, 2006, at 10.08, Carl Karsten wrote:

> Kichigai Mentat wrote:
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>>>> On Jan 2, 2006, at 19.54, Carl Karsten wrote:
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>>>>> can mplayer do http://www.wavpack.com ?
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>>>> I assume you're asking because you have a WAVpack file? Why not   
>>>> try  it out? It can't hurt.
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>>> It hurt my ears ;)
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>>> Apparently mplayer thinks it knows how, but all I hear is fuzz/  
>>> white noise/static.
>> No, according to this, MPlayer thinks it's something else. Try  
>> using - ac list or -ac help (I forget which it is) to see the  
>> complete  listing of all MPlayer codecs for audio.
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> No luck:
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> Available audio codecs:
[snip]
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> ^C
Well, I hate to sound rather coarse, but there you go. MPlayer does  
not have WAVpack support. The question is, now: WILL the MPlayer devs/ 
FFmpeg devs choose to support WAVpack?

My guess is that, since it's not a very heavily used codec, and it's  
not too commonly found on the internet, development won't see the  
kind of encouragement that we've seen blossom with AAC, AC3, WMA,  
Vorbis, and other like codecs.
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