[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 400550] support for mp3 surrround format

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  GStreamer | gst-plugins-ugly | Ver: 0.10.x


Tim-Philipp Müller changed:

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------- Comment #1 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2007-01-25 10:57 UTC -------
These appear to be mp3 files in 'mp3 surround' format. The fact that they are
played back in stereo on 'normal' mp3 players is a feature of the format.

If I'm not mistaken, the 'mp3 surround' format is closed and there are no
acceptably-licensed libraries that support this format yet either.

In any case, you would need to request support for this format from upstream
libraries, GStreamer itself does not contain decoders, we only wrap them into
GStreamer plugins.

When playing the file in vlc or mplayer I can't find any indication that more
than 2 channels are decoded.

 - what versions of VLC and mplayer have you tried this with
   (and what's the source/distro these are from)?

 - can you point us to an open-source library or tool that
   implements this?

 - can you point us to a place where format specifications are available?


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