Shonumi Wrote:Ultimately, I hear the devs of PPSSPP want native decoding of AC3 files (they'll have to reverse engineer the codec first, but I'm sure they'll get it). Then sound would "just work". JPCSP is fine for now, but on Linux, it's a hassle to decode the files, so I'm looking forward to what PPSSPP will bring to the table. I think soon it will be better than JPCSP in many regards; I'll check back on it in a couple of months.
Why can't they use one of the many open source AC3 decoders floating around the web? It's not exactly a rare codec. I'm guessing the problem has more to do with the container format than the codec itself, unless I'm missing something obvious.
Whoops, did I write AC3? Totally not what I meant to say. This is what happens when you post right as you wake up :p
It's ATRAC3+ that I was thinking of. As far as I know, JPCSP uses FFMPEG to deal with ATRAC3, but ATRAC3+ hasn't been reverse engineered yet, so it's a problem for both JPCSP and PPSSPP. PPSSPP has plans to use FFMPEG for ATRAC3 decoding eventually.
In regards to PPSSPP, AT3+ support was just added a few days ago to master, you'll need this file
[Windows] |
[Android] (don't worry, they're legal to distribute, compiled from an open source project) and place it in the PPSSPP directory (Windows) or sd/PSP (Android). Also video support was merged 3 days ago too. Just note though that there are still quite a few bugs to be worked out, like some sounds and videos not playing, as support was just added.
Looks like this
thread here is what caused those developments. So PPSSPP now has the ability to load libraries for the AT3+, interesting. I'm still waiting for it do support AT3+ natively (and on desktop Linux distros, not just Android) but this is a good development. Hopefully this will help them RE the AT3+ codec once and for all, then the world can be a better place
Also looks like they added in FFMPEG for some stuff too.