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- From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- Subject: Re: Playing ADPCM audio data under windows
- Message-ID: <8738@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:48:53 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.151043.23034@impmh.uucp> <1993Jan25.092049.10800W@lumina.edb.tih.no>
- Sender: news@cwi.nl
- Followup-To: comp.multimedia
- Lines: 33
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- ketil@edb.tih.no (Ketil Albertsen,TIH) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan23.151043.23034@impmh.uucp>, cm@impmh.uucp (Colin Manning)
- >writes:
- >
- >>According the the ms documentation, they accept data in 44.1Khz samples,
- >>20.05Kh and 10.025Khz. ADPCM is sampled at different rate.
- >>
- >>Anyone any idea how easy/difficult it is to convert audio data sampled at
- >>one rate to another ?
- >
- >Now that you ask: Yes, it is difficult... :-)
- >
- >If the only difference was the sampling rate, plain linear interpolation
- >would probably be satisfactory - and anyone who can do simple multiplication
- >and division in c could do the job.
- >
- >[and goes on to explain how decoding ADPCM is difficult]
-
- Two remarks. First, while linear interpolation works for rate
- conversion, the result is rather poor: it can adds lots of digital
- noise. Unfortunately the techniques required to remove this noise are
- difficult -- digital filters are hard to design, and hard to implement
- in software. (Read comp.dsp if you're interested in such things.)
-
- Second, a free implementation of ADPCM exist. This ADPCM (en/de)coder
- is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cwi.nl [192.16.184.180],
- directory pub/audio, file adpcm.shar. This is a library written in C
- -- you'll have to write a program around it to use it.
-
- Happy hacking,
-
- --Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>
-