On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 02:04:04AM -0700, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > Hi, > > alac_decoder is a basic decoder for Apple Lossless Audio Codec files > (ALAC). It is a C implementation of a decoder, written from reverse > engineering the file format. ALAC uses an adaptive FIR prediction > algorithm and stores the error values using a modified rice or golumb > algorithm. > > Works well on i386/amd64. > > ok?
This is the original reverse engineered decoder that the alac code in ffmpeg is based on. Is there any reason to prefer this over the code in ffmpeg or the code apple recently released (http://alac.macosforge.org/) ?
