Yes, this should be possible. Indeed the Rockbox team earned a spot in the Google Summer of Code 2007 to update the FFMpeg code to their use. The product of this is available in the apps/codecs directory of their builds, which you can find here:
http://build.rockbox.org/ More information on their work here: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SoundCodecWMA I'd like to talk to someone who has more experience with C who'd be interested in making this run natively in ActionScript 3. --- In [email protected], Sam Lai <samuel....@...> wrote: > > This should be possible in theory, given Microsoft Silverlight has > just added support for doing this exact thing in Silverlight 3 (and > there is a project for providing Ogg Vorbis support going on). > > Who knows what the licensing implications here are though. The only > WMA decoder I know of that has source available is the one inside > ffmpeg. Performance would be an interesting thing. > > It might be worth trying to get something going on Alchemy instead, > mainly for better performance (without the AS overhead). > > 2009/5/9 tottenkamen <tottenka...@...>: > > Hi everyone. I'm working on an application that reads MP3 streams and it > > would be even better if it could read in WMA streams (or Real for that > > matter), decode them, and play them back to the user. My initial thoughts > > are that this is not impossible. It SHOULD be a matter of loading the WMA > > in as a URLStream or Socket and decoding the result into something the > > Sound object can play. Is anyone familiar with source that would do this > > decoding, perhaps in another language that could be ported to AS3? Would > > anyone be interested in joining me on coding an open-source version of this? > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > -- > > Flexcoders Mailing List > > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > > Alternative FAQ location: > > https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 > > Search Archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > >
