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- Audio File Library 0.2.6
- Development Notes
- Michael Pruett <michael@68k.org>
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- Large file support is now available on many systems by running configure
- with the flag --enable-largefile. By default support for large files
- is turned off. This option is unnecessary on systems where off_t is
- always 64 bits (e.g. IRIX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X).
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- The Audio File Library supports CCITT G.711 mu-law and A-law as well
- as IMA and MS ADPCM. Many compressed data formats are not supported.
- This is currently the most important issue to address.
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- Error handling is at the present quite robust, but more work can always
- be done in this area.
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- SGI's Audio File Library on IRIX implements the following formats which
- this version of the library does not:
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- MPEG1 audio bitstream
- Sound Designer II
- SampleVision
- VOC
- SoundFont2
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- I plan to implement some of these as time permits. Sound Designer
- II is out of the question because of its dependency upon Macintosh
- resource forks. Handling these files on Unix systems is simply not
- worth the effort.
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- This version of the Audio File Library has been tested under the
- following operating environments:
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- mips-sgi-irix6.5 / IRIX 6.5 (MIPSpro cc 7.4m)
- powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0 / Mac OS X 10.3.2 (gcc 3.3)
- i686-pc-linux-gnu / Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (gcc 2.95.4)
- sparc-sun-solaris2.9 / Solaris 9 (gcc 3.0.4)
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