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New MPC Decoding Library And Updated Homepage

Posted by timothy on from the can-you-hear-me-all-compressed dept.

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."

4 of 15 comments (clear)

  1. Excellent. by NotoriousQ · · Score: 1, Interesting

    But is it patent encumbered?

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  2. What happens next is up to the vorbis folks. by mcgroarty · · Score: 2, Interesting
    If the bitrate-tuned branches get merged back into the main encoder library, there won't be much reason to go with MPC.

    If MPC default encoder remains superior to the Vorbis default encoder, this could be the beginning of the end.

    The UNIX culture tends to like a single authoritative library for this sort of thing. If you have to use a non-standard library for better Vorbis encoding, it's going to lose interest.

  3. Can this codec be used in an ogg container? by topynate · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So you can have Ogg Musepack files. Would this be useful?

  4. Re:No way! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If you've got a fast enough computer, you really should have all your audio stored in a lossless format like FLAC and just recode to mp3/aac/vorbis/mpc/lossy format of the day on the fly as you copy the music to your portable player.