Re: [linux-minidisc] linux-minidisc Digest, Vol 43, Issue 3

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi Jurgen!

On 01/05/2014 02:22 PM, Jurgen. wrote:
> These patches to implement this mp3 download in the GUI were proposed
> already a long time ago.

Correct. They are part of the command line interface already. However,
not part of the graphical user interface. I don't remember exactly
whether

> When will you be able to implement them? Is this dependent on the
> current developments done by Thomas?

No, it's independent. However, to make sure we don't create a mess
and end up with something which isn't working in the end, I'd like
to have Thomas' patches for NetMD support to be committed first. I am
going to do that this evening.

He has already captured a video demonstrating that NetMD downloads
are now fully working which I find pretty impressive. This is the
result of the the efforts of so many people and I had never thought
that we could ever replace almost all transfer functionality of
SonicStage, I'm very happy now :).

> Otherwise, can you please implement these?

Sure. I'll dig through the old patches and repost them to the list
for review.

> I was hoping that with the release of VLC media player 2.1 the
> Atract3plus (which was coded on the Summer of Code) was implemented. But
> no signs of that in the VLC changelog. It only says Atrac support
> (limited). I saw that there were some additions to the LibAV repository,
> but I am unable to compile / make a suitable patch to read my Atrac3plus
> files from my MZ-RH1.

ATRAC3+ is now integrated into the sources of ffmpeg:

>
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=2e1fb96af36348479e14aa85f445915ea09e70fa

It's a matter of time when the released version of VLC will be able
to play back ATRAC3+ files. I suspect it will happen in the next
minor version 2.2.x.

I will talk to Jean-Baptiste Kempf and ask him when he expects
VLC to be released with the decoder.

Adrian

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