Re: [Fwd: SV: MPC ( musepack ) INTEGER decoder sources for ARM processors, L-GPL !!! was : Re: Dolby AAC licensing costs ??]

Excellent news ! Kudos to this Chinese guy !!

Maybe we could suggest MPC to Rio for inclusion into the Karma ? MPC
wouldn't hurt, it already has Vorbis.. ;-)

Their developers seem very open-minded, so if the module is well-written
and they probably have licensed pretty much every audio format already -
it might be a good idea.

Anyway, I wouldn't do it before we all agree.

By the way, does someone here have an ARM-based development board and
some skills for testing the codec ?

Best Regards
Jo=C3=ABl


On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 02:41, Christian HJ Wiesner wrote:
>  FYI ..... this info is not ment to go out into the wild yet ;) ..... p=
lease
> keep it inside of all the subscribed members on this list ....
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> Christian
> MPC and matroska project admin
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> P.S. I edited out the guy's email adress to protect his privacy ....
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> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: SV: MPC ( musepack ) INTEGE=
R
> decoder sources for ARM processors, L-GPL !!! was : Re: Dolby AAC licen=
sing
> costs ?? Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:12:19 +0200 From: Stefan Hallas Ande=
rsen
> <>To: '[email protected][1]' <[email protected]>[2]=20
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> Hi Christian,   Thanks alot for this - I'll look into doing this tomorr=
ow
> morning. Looks pretty good to me, with a little luck it could be in the=
 next
> firmware release.   About the sales stuff - WoW!!! You'r commitment to =
this
> amazes me! I'll do my best to make all of this happend.   Thanks again,=
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> Stefan -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: Christian HJ Wiesner [mailto:[email protected][3]]
> Sendt: 21. oktober 2003 17:06
> Til: Stefan Hallas Andersen
> Emne: MPC ( musepack ) INTEGER decoder sources for ARM processors, L-GP=
L !!!
> was : Re: Dolby AAC licensing costs ??
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> Hi Stefan,
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> its me again with some very good news !! There is an INTEGER version of=
 the
> MPC decoder, made for ARM processors !! I attach it, its VERY small, an=
d
> L-GPL also, made by a Chinese MPC fan in his freetime  ! The sources ar=
e
> only27 KB, compiled its less than 17 KB !
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> BTW, this poll here would maybe interest some of your marketing guys :
> http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?showtopic=3D14414&st=3D0&#entry1=
45928[4]
> .. it is only several hours old ;-) ...
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> Here is my word : If you implement MPC decoding, i organize sales of 50
> unitsfor you guys. I even pay for them from my own pocket, i could pay =
the
> 7500,- &#8364;from my bank account if i want to ;-) ....
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> Regards
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> Christian
> matroska project admin
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> P.S. Some important links about MPC :
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> Sample Files : http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~pfk/MPP/testcase.html[5=
]
> Sample Files2 : http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/streamtest/[6]
> Winamp plugin : http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/mpc/winamp/index.html[7]
> Collection of sources and binaries :
> http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/mpc/index.html[8]
> Homepage of the main developer :
> http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~pfk/mpp/index2.html[9]
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> Christian HJ Wiesner wrote:
> *On another subject, namely MPC ( musepack ) :*=20
> There is a huge fan community for an opensource audio compression stand=
ard
> called MPC ( musepack ). MPC is not a competitor of Vorbis, as it is
> targetting the fans of music archiving at bitrates >160 kbps, but with
> unrivalled sound, very close to using lossless codecs. There is a very =
fast,
> L-GPL decoder library written in plain C, you can find it here :=20
> http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~pfk/MPP/index2.html#decoder-source[10]=
  ,
> size of the complete decoder library is only *130 KB*, compiled binarie=
s can
> be smaller than *50 KB* :-) !!=20
> I also attached the source as a tarball, in case you want to look at it=
. The
> MPC decoder sources are L-GPL and free for your use. With a working MPC
> support in your units you could attract a few hundred potential users, =
real
> MPC freaks, and there are no other hardware units on the market with MP=
C
> support.=20
> *MPC playback requires very very low CPU usage !!!!!*=20
> This makes it ideal for integration into your devices. There were some =
old
> patents used for MPC, namely something called subband transform that wa=
s
> originally used for the old MP2 audio standard, but as you guys have pa=
id to
> the MPEG-LA the licensing costs for MP2 anyhow, and nobody in the indus=
try
> isreally aware of MPC and that its based on an old MP2 patent, you guys
> should be fine in any case. Maybe a good cahnce to sell a few more unit=
s,
> andwith minimum effort ! And, BTW, we plan to have MPC support in matro=
ska
> sooner or later  ;-) ......=20
> Regards=20
> Christian=20
> matroska project admin=20
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> --- Links ---
>    1 mailto:[email protected]
>    2 mailto:[email protected]
>    3 mailto:[email protected]
>    4 http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?showtopic=3D14414&st=3D0&#e=
ntry145928
>    5 http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/%7Epfk/MPP/testcase.html
>    6 http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/streamtest/
>    7 http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/mpc/winamp/index.html
>    8 http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/mpc/index.html
>    9 http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/%7Epfk/mpp/index2.html
>   10 http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/%7Epfk/MPP/index2.html#decoder-sou=
rce
> http://mpc.corecodec.org
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http://mpc.corecodec.org