<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>please allow me to point you to a thread on Hydrogenaudio, discussing a very good idea from mf to convert Foobar2000, a complete-one-library audio player solution into a M$ DirectShow filter with the ability to play some opensource audio formats such as</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>MPC</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>FLAC</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Vorbis</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>without the need to make specific DShow filters for them, and also achieving all the other benfits from Foobar2000 like Equalizer, DRC, etc. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2> ( <A href="http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?act=ST&f=24&t=5866&s=35f3e8a7d761e1eadfb4ac1dd2dc380a">http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?act=ST&f=24&t=5866&s=35f3e8a7d761e1eadfb4ac1dd2dc380a</A> ... sorry for the long link, bash Invision board for that ).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The same principle could very well be used to make gstreamer plugins from it, same is valid for BeSweet ( <A href="http://www.doom9.org">www.doom9.org</A> ), the best audio encoding tool on this world. DSPguru offered many times he would give BeSweet.dll away for other interesting purposes such as a DShow or gstreamer based audio encoder. No idea what it takes to make it compile on Linux though, but if you are interested i will go asking him about it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BeSweet is offering :</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- AC3 input</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- AVI input</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- MP3 input</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- WAV input ( AC3, MP3, PCM, etc. )</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Resampling with SSRC in either 16 Bit, 24 Bit or 32 Bit FP accuracy, including dithering )</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- 2 pass normalizing</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- 1 pass normalizing ( replaygain, Vorbisgain )</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- 5.1 downmix to Stereo, DPL and DPL2 Stereo</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- DRC</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- MP2/3 output ( Lame/tolame )</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Vorbis output</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- WAV PCM output ( any bitdepth )</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>etc. ( cant list it all )</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and all in one nice DLL :-) . I am convinced it would be quite useful if you got a BeSweet.rm to make a gstreamer plugin from it, please excuse me if i missed the point and was talking rubbish.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Christian</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>