New portable Musepack decoder library, including fixed-point mode Options

[Peter]

UPDATE: source posted here is outdated now, newer version is hosted on musepack.net.

Full C++ source in post attachement.

License: LGPL.

Features:
- Switchable fixed-point and floating-point modes - enable/disable "#define MPC_FIXED_POINT" in mpc_math.h
- Endian-safe, verified running correctly on big-endian machines
- Multiinstance and multithread safe
- File access callbacks
- No assembly code used, for full portability

Verified correctly compiling/running under:
- win32 / x86 / MSVC6 + SP5 + processor pack - very fast floating-point mode (goes above 200x on ~2GHz machines), fixed-point mode is significantly slower (~60x)
- win32 / x86 / MSVC7.1 - slightly faster than MSVC6, fixed-point mode still relatively slow
- win32 / x86 / DMCPP - fixed-point mode faster than MSVC, floating-point mode slower than expected with strange slowdowns when compiled with speed optimizations enabled
- wince / ARM (32bit) / eVC4 + SP3 - fixed-point decoding speed on 400MHz XScale CPU is about 10x realtime
- Darwin 7.3.0, MacOS X 10.3.3 / PowerPC970/G5 / GCC 3.3 - about 80x-100x decoding speed in both modes on 2GHz G5, thanks to TrNSZ for testing/feedback

I'm planning to put this in official MPC CVS, unfortunately I can't do that right now because corecodec server has been down for serveral days.

Attached File(s)

 mpcdec.zip ( 45.56K ) Number of downloads: 1809

 

[atici]

That's great news indeed. We've had enough of "MPC has slim chance of portable support" argument already. This demonstrates once again that if it doesn't have support it's because the platforms are not open enough to let us code support which is not MPC developers' fault.

I was recently in contact with the pocket-tunes player developers for plug-in support. Check the details here. Maybe we can get it work on PalmOS soon too.