MP3 in Squeak

John.Maloney at disney.com John.Maloney at disney.com
Thu Apr 29 04:57:17 UTC 1999


Mark Guzdial wrote:

>I just read that QuickTime 4 (beta available off
>http://www.apple.com/quicktime/) includes MP3 playback.  How hard would it
>be to get Squeak to play generic files through QuickTime (on platforms that
>support it)?  Admittedly, a Squeak-based MP3 decoder would be more fun, and
>I do understand that MP3 isn't such great quality -- but there's a lot of
>MP3 files out there, and playing with them in Squeak would be cool.

I agree, that would be really cool!

More generally, Quicktime 4.0 adds to the set of sound codecs
(coder/decoder) there were already available. I'd love to be
able to access any of these codecs, including MP3, from within
Squeak.

Unfortunately, I don't have time to write the primitives to do
this right now. The main barrier is digging through the Quicktime
documentation to find the right API's. If someone were to send
me some sample code in C, it would certainly lower my "activation
threshold" significantly... :->

	-- John





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