[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libmodplug wrapper

nazo lovesyao
Sat Jul 11 11:35:25 CEST 2009


Kostya ????????:
> From my experience (several MOD-like and Adlib tracker formats in DOS
> times), you can represent tracker as two parts: samples and notes. For a
> bit modern people - like MIDI file with its own soundfont. So usually
> you have hundreds of kilobytes or more of samples (which may be treated
> as extradata) and less than 1KB of notes which define what to play.
> Also notes are grouped into patterns and subpatterns which may be
> repeated certain number of times, with speed changes that results in each
> part playing time very greatly varying. This makes it an awful sound format
> for generic container.

IIRC MOV and AVI container can contain MIDI stream. Those has an awful 
already.

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Nazo (T.K.) <lovesyao at gmail.com>



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