Musepack (MPC) support for VLC

[KAMiKAZOW]

Hi.
VLC is a grat tool, but I wonder, if there are any plans for adding Musepack/MPC support to VLC.
The MPC decoder is open source and can be downloaded from http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~pfk/MP ... der-source

Listening tests usually prove that MPC is the best lossy audio format. see http://audio.ciara.us/test/128extension/results.html

Thanks.

[The DJ]

MPC is something that will probably be supported in the future.

[KAMiKAZOW]

Great.

[Sigmund]

I've been digging a bit, and found some MPC sources. But I didn't like them very much. They have no clear license marking (though one tarball had a COPYING-lgpl file in it). Also they they don't seem to have a very clean interface.

[The DJ]

MPC also has no clean separation of fileformat and codec i heard. This makes it very hard to correctly add MPC support to VLC. I was told that MPC can't even be added to matroska or QuickTime files for instance. You would have to include the entire file instead of just the audio.

[KAMiKAZOW]

Just FYI, there's a new MPC decoder by another author, licensed under LGPL.
Maybe it fits better into VLC. See http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/ind ... opic=21775

[Sigmund]

We've noticed and I've looked a bit at it. The license is ok now but the interface of this code still doesn't please me, so I've given up including it.

[The DJ]

The problem is that MPC is still designed as something for audio files only. It wasn't designed to be contained in another fileformat like avi or mov or matroska for instance.
The fact that it wasn't designed with this in mind, also makes it very difficult to implement a proper decoder module in VLC (decoder and fileformat are one, something VLC desperatly wants to be split out in two seperate parts).

For the last 1,5 year the author has been working to fix this, but he isn't really motivated, so work isn't coming along very well.
Until this major rework of MPC is done, it's pretty much a useless and dead technology in my eyes.

DJ