[FFmpeg-devel] AMR-WB+ support in Ffmpeg

Alex Converse alex.converse
Wed Dec 17 01:45:56 CET 2008


On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Igor Gueths <igueths at lava-net.com> wrote:

> Hi Diego.
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:43:41AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:04:08AM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:17:53AM +0100, Benoit Fouet wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 12/15/2008 08:07 AM, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > > > > Hi all. I was attempting to add AMR-WB+ support into my working
> copy of R-16140;
> > > >
> > > > AMR support in FFmpeg is done through libamr [1] which is included in
> > > > most distros today (libamrnb-dev and libamrwb-dev), that's why
> configure
> > > > checks for their existences. If you build it manually, you have to
> make
> > > > it possible to locate it.
> > > > Also, AFAIK, libamr does not support WB+ at the moment...
> > >
> > > I see what you are saying. So in this case, it is probably better to
> handle WB+
> > > support within the existing libamr wrapper library, in which case I
> will contact
> > > the developer, to see if there is anything I need to absolutely keep in
> mind
> > > before attempting an integration of WB+ into that library.
> >
> > AFAIK the reference code is not developed further.  Ideally you should
> > add AMR-WB and AMR-WB+ support to FFmpeg.
> >
>
> Out of curiosity, where did you determine that the code was possibly going
> unmaintained? Regarding AMR-WB and AMR-WB+ support, as far as I can tell,
> the
> two codebases seem pretty compatible with each other. Consequently, I
> wouldn't
> find it out of the ordinary if AMR-WB+ was either partially or fully
> compatible
> with AMR-WB; I have not managed to fully verify this as of yet though. The
> AMR-WB+ zip archive structure is also a little bit different, in that they
> include Win32 binaries for the encoder and decoder, along with a DLL
> (er-libisomedia.dll), a static version of the same library with a .lib
> extension, and also some static library called 3gplib.lib as well. Some
> further
> investigation is going to be required into exactly what role these
> libraries
> play in the encoding and decoding processes.
> >
>
>
libisomedia.* is Implementation Model 1 (IM1) of ISO/IEC 14496-14 (MPEG-4
File Format) as part of ISO/IEC 14496-5 (Reference Software).

In layman's speak it's an mp4 (de)muxer.

Regards,
Alex Converse




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