{"id":593,"date":"2008-08-24T19:40:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T02:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/gsoc-showcase-alac\/"},"modified":"2008-08-24T19:40:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T02:40:04","slug":"gsoc-showcase-alac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/gsoc-showcase-alac\/","title":{"rendered":"GSoC Showcase: ALAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For his <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Summer_Of_Code\">FFmpeg Summer of Code project<\/a>, Jai Menon successfully completed an encoder for the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Apple_Lossless_Audio_Coding\">Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC)<\/a>. As you can see, Jai&#8217;s encoder is competitive with Apple&#8217;s iTunes, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dbpoweramp.com\/\">dBpoweramp<\/a>, another program that implements an ALAC encoder:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/ffmpeg-alac-chart.png\" alt=\"ALAC compression comparison chart\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Benjamin Larsson for setting up the graph. We&#8217;re rooting for the cyan bar to be the lowest one of each bar quartet. The code is already in the mainline tree.<\/p>\n<p>The 13 samples I used for this test come from the <a href=\"http:\/\/openmusic.linuxtag.org\/\">OpenMusic CD<\/a> and showcase a reasonable diversity of genres. <a href=\"http:\/\/jukebox.multimedia.cx\/wav-pcm-bz2\/\">The raw rips are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For his FFmpeg Summer of Code project, Jai Menon successfully completed an encoder for the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC). As you can see, Jai&#8217;s encoder is competitive with Apple&#8217;s iTunes, as well as dBpoweramp, another program that implements an ALAC encoder: Thanks to Benjamin Larsson for setting up the graph. We&#8217;re rooting for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-multimedia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}