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Tutorials and Information on Audio Codecs?

Posted by Cliff on from the computer-audiophile-in-the-making dept.

BigOTeeToe asks: "I am interested in learning how to write audio codecs for Windows and/or Linux systems. I have already signed up to the Vorbis developers mailing list, but would like to know if any Slashdotters know of some online resources for codec beginners."

7 comments

  1. Re:try ms by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Does it really remove links to MS or are you trolling?

  2. Re:try ms by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Question answered.

    (Silly 2 minute rule. Ho hum. Ho hum. La

  3. If you really want to do something useful ... by LordNimon · · Score: 2

    ... then write codecs for OS/2. Windows doesn't need any, and Linux's multimedia subsystem is not as good as OS/2's. OS/2 needs good audio codecs.

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    1. Re:If you really want to do something useful ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Haha, that's funny. Give it up, OS/2 is dead.

  4. You really didn't specify... by cmowire · · Score: 3, Informative

    You really didn't specify what you were trying to do as far as audio codecs go..

    But here's some nice compression resources. Boning up on that should help you write any sort of codecs..

    http://www.dogma.net/markn/
    http://www.compressconsult.com/
    http://geocities.com/eri32/
    http://www.internz.com/compression-pointers.html
    http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~alistair/abstracts/inpla ce .htmlhttp://www.firstpr.com.au/audiocomp/lossless/ http://www.cs.tut.fi/~albert/Dev/pucrunch/
    http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~peter-f/
    http://www.arturocampos.com/

    Hope that some or all of these URLs are useful to some area of what you want to do. Have fun.

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  5. So does Apple //e and the Vic 20 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So get crackin'! They are in desperate need of codecs.