DSS (Digital Speech Standard) support

[schalti]

Olympus, Grundig and Philips use this proprietary codec on their dictation solutions. Wouldn't it be great to be able to playback those files with vlc?

[fkuehne]

If you know a free, open-source decoder for this codec, we would be glad to include it.

[schalti]

If you know a free, open-source decoder for this codec, we would be glad to include it.

I didn't find one, so there are two ways left:
- reverse engineering
- IVA/Philips will make their codec free and open source
---> I just suggested them to do so, let's see what happens

The Codec has been developed together with University of Nuremberg back in 1994 and is well established today in many dictation solutions.

[fkuehne]

Well, reverse engineering is quite a big task. I doubt that someone in the team got the time for that, but volunteers are always welcome. We are glad to help you or other persons, if needed.

If Philips releases the source, it has to be under a GPL-compatible license, so we can be able to use it. GPL-compatible are LGPL, Apache and BSB-like licenses for example. We will keep watching this thread. Feel free to post news on that issue here.