WavPack in VLC?, Could help spread the format.... Options

[Mr_Rabid_Teddybe...]

Some open source projects are these days spreading rapidly among the "common folks" - such folks that couldn't give a rats ass 'bout the meaning of "GPL" or "BSD" and soforth - successes like Open Office, Firefox and VLC. I now regulary meet very much not-computer-savvy people who are happy to have found VLC as it "just plays" everything that's thrown at it.

However, support for WavPack are missing. And looking at this thread at the VLC forum it seems the devs over there are happy to implement it... only if somebody else write the code. However, if somebody is able I think that it could be worth it, as beeing supported by VLC might help the widespread of the format...

[kjoonlee]

If the Ubuntu devs are doing their work properly, all you would need to do is sudo apt-get build-dep insert VLC package name here && sudo apt-get -b install insert VLC package name here for it to build.

The source files will probably be left where you ran that command.

PS. You'd need to have a "deb-src" line in /etc/apt/sources.list as well.

[bryant]

If the Ubuntu devs are doing their work properly, all you would need to do is sudo apt-get build-dep insert VLC package name here && sudo apt-get -b install insert VLC package name here for it to build.

The source files will probably be left where you ran that command.

PS. You'd need to have a "deb-src" line in /etc/apt/sources.list as well.

I also got the impression that their Cygwin build setup is pretty reasonable, and I'm pretty used to that. If either of those work without too much trouble then I'd be set...