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some clarifications
author alex
date Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:56:56 +0000
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550 <title>Audio codecs</title> 550 <title>Audio codecs</title>
551 551
552 <itemizedlist> 552 <itemizedlist>
553 <title>The most important audio codecs above all:</title> 553 <title>The most important audio codecs above all:</title>
554 <listitem><simpara> 554 <listitem><simpara>
555 MPEG layer 2 (MP2), and layer 3 (MP3) audio (<emphasis role="bold">native</emphasis> 555 MPEG layer 1/2/3 (MP1/2/3) audio (<emphasis role="bold">native</emphasis>
556 code, with MMX/SSE/3DNow! optimization) 556 code, with MMX/SSE/3DNow! optimization)
557 </simpara></listitem> 557 </simpara></listitem>
558 <listitem><simpara> 558 <listitem><simpara>
559 MPEG layer 1 audio (<emphasis role="bold">native</emphasis> code, with libavcodec) 559 Windows Media Audio 7 and 8 (aka WMAv1 and WMAv2) (<emphasis role="bold">native</emphasis> code, with
560 </simpara></listitem> 560 <link linkend="ffmpeg">libavcodec</link>)
561 <listitem><simpara>
562 Windows Media Audio v1, v2 (<emphasis role="bold">native</emphasis> code, with
563 libavcodec)
564 </simpara></listitem> 561 </simpara></listitem>
565 <listitem><simpara> 562 <listitem><simpara>
566 Windows Media Audio 9 (WMAv3) (using DMO DLL) 563 Windows Media Audio 9 (WMAv3) (using DMO DLL)
567 </simpara></listitem> 564 </simpara></listitem>
568 <listitem><simpara> 565 <listitem><simpara>
571 </simpara></listitem> 568 </simpara></listitem>
572 <listitem><simpara> 569 <listitem><simpara>
573 AC3 passing through soundcard hardware 570 AC3 passing through soundcard hardware
574 </simpara></listitem> 571 </simpara></listitem>
575 <listitem><simpara> 572 <listitem><simpara>
573 AAC
574 </simpara></listitem>
575 <listitem><simpara>
576 Ogg Vorbis audio codec (<emphasis role="bold">native</emphasis> library) 576 Ogg Vorbis audio codec (<emphasis role="bold">native</emphasis> library)
577 </simpara></listitem> 577 </simpara></listitem>
578 <listitem><simpara> 578 <listitem><simpara>
579 RealAudio: DNET (low bitrate AC3), Cook, Sipro and ATRAC3 579 RealAudio: DNET (low bitrate AC3), Cook, Sipro and ATRAC3
580 </simpara></listitem> 580 </simpara></listitem>
588 Voxware audio (using DirectShow DLL) 588 Voxware audio (using DirectShow DLL)
589 </simpara></listitem> 589 </simpara></listitem>
590 <listitem><simpara> 590 <listitem><simpara>
591 alaw and ulaw, various gsm, adpcm and pcm formats and other simple old 591 alaw and ulaw, various gsm, adpcm and pcm formats and other simple old
592 audio codecs 592 audio codecs
593 </simpara></listitem>
594 <listitem><simpara>
595 AAC
596 </simpara></listitem> 593 </simpara></listitem>
597 </itemizedlist> 594 </itemizedlist>
598 595
599 596
600 <sect3 id="swac3"> 597 <sect3 id="swac3">
651 648
652 <sect3 id="libmad"> 649 <sect3 id="libmad">
653 <title>libmad support</title> 650 <title>libmad support</title>
654 651
655 <para> 652 <para>
656 <ulink url="http://mad.sourceforge.net">libmad</ulink> is a multiplatform 653 <ulink url="http://mad.sourceforge.net">libmad</ulink> is a multiplatform,
654 integer (internally 24bit PCM) only
657 MPEG audio decoding library. It does not handle broken files well, and it 655 MPEG audio decoding library. It does not handle broken files well, and it
658 sometimes has problems with seeking. 656 sometimes has problems with seeking, but it may perform better on FPU-less
657 (such as <link linked="arm">ARM</link>) platform than mp3lib.
659 </para> 658 </para>
660 659
661 <para> 660 <para>
662 To enable support, compile with the <option>--enable-mad</option> configure 661 To enable support, compile with the <option>--enable-mad</option> configure
663 option. 662 option.