I bought myself a PowerBook and hoped to play my FLAC-encoded library via iTunes. Alas -- it doesn't work. My understanding is that iTunes uses QuickTime for playback; does anyone know where to find a FLAC codec for QuickTime? I noticed that there was some discussion about this ~1 year ago on flac-dev. Did any dev projects get underway, or should I roll up my sleeves and give it a go? -Dave
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:29:44PM -0700, Dave Peck wrote:> My understanding is that iTunes uses QuickTime for playback; does anyone > know where to find a FLAC codec for QuickTime?I believe it's more accurate to say iTunes can fall back to QuickTime to play unknown formats. One story has it they had to work around the same bugs in QT that kept the vorbis component from working for so long. Another is just that the original app Apple bought and turned into iTunes wasn't quicktime-based.> I noticed that there was some discussion about this ~1 year ago on flac-dev. > Did any dev projects get underway, or should I roll up my sleeves and give > it a go?I'm not aware of any working components, so feel free to have it a go. We really need new qt/coreaudio components for all the xiph codecs, not just flac. Google turns up a couple of efforts you might want to check out/start with/contribute to. http://damien.drix.free.fr/qtflac/ http://radio.weblogs.com/0134505/categories/coreaudio/ (vapourware?) http://qtcomponents.sourceforge.net/ (vorbis, speex, mng, but no flac) http://www.illadvised.com/~jordy/ (vorbis) Hope that helps, -r
--- Dave Peck <o-flac@delver.org> wrote:> I bought myself a PowerBook and hoped to play my FLAC-encoded library > via > iTunes. Alas -- it doesn't work. > > My understanding is that iTunes uses QuickTime for playback; does > anyone > know where to find a FLAC codec for QuickTime?there is a semi-working component with source available. I have not yet had a chance to try it out. see this thread: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=17290 you can skip through until the post by ddrix where it gets interesting. Josh _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com
If i could find some good documentation on quicktime, i'd probably give it a shot... since i already have most of the infrastructure already for directshow. I had a look a few times for detailed info on quicktime, and it all looked pretty painful. Not to mention all the base media handler code provided for the sdk, says not suitable for bitrates greater than like 32kpbs which is useless to most media plug-ins, so it looks like you have to get down and dirty to get anything non-trivial done. But it's certainly one of those things that has been on my really long like-to-do list. Since i primarily use iTunes (under windows) for audio, it would be nice to be able to put my various .ogg files in the same playlist as the rest of my music. Zen. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Coalson" <xflac@yahoo.com> To: "Dave Peck" <o-flac@delver.org>; <flac-dev@xiph.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 7:26 AM Subject: Re: [Flac-dev] Quicktime + FLAC?> --- Dave Peck <o-flac@delver.org> wrote: > >> I bought myself a PowerBook and hoped to play my FLAC-encoded library >> via >> iTunes. Alas -- it doesn't work. >> >> My understanding is that iTunes uses QuickTime for playback; does >> anyone >> know where to find a FLAC codec for QuickTime? > > there is a semi-working component with source available. I > have not yet had a chance to try it out. see this thread: > > http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=17290 > > you can skip through until the post by ddrix where it gets > interesting. > > Josh > > > > > _______________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. > http://messenger.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Flac-dev mailing list > Flac-dev@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev > > >