New MPC Decoding Library And Updated Homepage

Dcoder writes "The MPC codec has finally completed its transition to the open source world by making Musepack.net its new official home, featuring a complete collection of tools, plug-ins and codec binaries (Linux, Win32 and Mac OS X) and the sourcecode to the complete SV7-1.15r codec source. Additionally, Peter Pawlowski has recently completed his work on an LGPL-licensed portable mpcdec library, which comes with floating and fixed-point math modes and performs at around 10x realtime on a Intel XScale 400Mhz and is even fast enough to bring MPC decoding to slower ARM chips like the iPod's ARMv4. Musepack's outstanding quality has been proven only recently by a public listening test."

Comments

Re:Excellent.

[NotoriousQ]

Oh well... I guess I will answr my own question. Should have RTFA'd closely.

From the site:
It is based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, but has rapidly developed and vastly improved and is now at an advanced stage in which it contains heavily optimized and patentless code.

I am a bit worried about anything that is MPEG. It sounds like it is impossible to conform to mpeg and not be patent-free.

Well. The only thing left is for mplayer to add support, if they have not done so already.