vorbis-tools 1.4.0, libvorbis 1.3.1, and libao 1.0.0 coordinated relea, March 26, 2010 Xiph's news Options

[forart.eu]

libao 1.0.0 released
libVorbis 1.3.1 released
vorbis-tools 1.4.0 released

Xiph.Org announces the release of libao-1.0.0, libvorbis-1.3.1 and vorbis-tools-1.4.0. This is a coordinated update of the audio libraries and tools to deploy improved surround-sound support across the libraries and toolchain.

libao improvements

• AO returned to active development
• Added surround channel mapping API and capability
• Updated all drivers on modern installs
• New config file options
• Driver options may be specified in config file
• Support for MacOSX updated to 10.5 and later
• Build in WMM driver rather than using dlopen()
• Added Roar Audio driver
• Added OpenBSD SNDIO driver
• Workaround for ESD non-4096 byte write bug
• Workaround aRts server crash bug
• Workaround for VIA82xx click/crackle bugs under ALSA
• Remove dead/unused drivers (solaris, alasa05, mmsound)
• Numerous patches from multiple downstreams

libvorbis improvements
libVorbis 1.3.0 was briefly available as an unreleased staging snapshot. This official release bumps the version number to 1.3.1 to avoid any possible confusion.

• Optimized/coupled surround support for 5.1 encoding at 44.1/48kHz
• Added encoder control call to disable channel coupling
• Corrected an overflow bug in very low-bitrate encoding on 32 bit machines that caused inflated bitrates
• Numerous API hardening, leak and build fixes
• Correct bug in 22kHz compand setup that could cause a crash
• Correct bug in 16kHz codebooks that could cause unstable pure tones at high bitrates

vorbis-tools improvements
vorbis-tools 1.4.0 is the first official release of vorbis-tools since 1.2.x. 1.3.x was never offered as an official snapshot, though various versions were widely deployed as patch-sets by distributions.

• Implement corrected channel mappings for all input and playback file types
• Correct an possible infinite loop in WAV input reading code when header is corrupt
• Implement "disable_coupling" option for oggenc
• Fix Ctrl-C lockup bug in ogg123
• ogg123 directory playback in sorted order
• Add WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE support
• More translations
• Add '-' as stdin/out filename in vcut
• Add -lnetwork check for socket in configure
• Remove 'extra' F parameter from ogg123 remote output
• Numerous code and build fixes

Downloads

The libao 1.0.0 release is available from http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ao/

The libvorbis 1.3.1 and vorbis-tools 1.4.0 releases are available from http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/

Happy hacking!

Monty
Xiph.Org

This post has been edited by greynol: Mar 26 2010, 23:06

Reason for edit: Removed post icon.

[john33]

oggenc2 has been bumped to V2.86 to reflect the new channel mapping. New compiles and sources are now available at Rarewares.

I still have the issue where 64 bit compiles will run on XP x64, but not on Win 7 64 Ultimate. If anyone can offer any suggestions or ideas, they'd be most welcome. Just to mention that FLAC input works fine in both environments, but at the point of the first attempt to read a wave file, integer or float, it crashes in Win 7 64 while working as expected in XP x64. (aif files also suffer the same fate.)

[Emre]

oggenc2 has been bumped to V2.86 to reflect the new channel mapping. New compiles and sources are now available at Rarewares.

I still have the issue where 64 bit compiles will run on XP x64, but not on Win 7 64 Ultimate. If anyone can offer any suggestions or ideas, they'd be most welcome. Just to mention that FLAC input works fine in both environments, but at the point of the first attempt to read a wave file, integer or float, it crashes in Win 7 64 while working as expected in XP x64. (aif files also suffer the same fate.)

Pipe encoding seems broken. Both generic & P4 builds.

CODE

Conversion failed: The encoder has terminated prematurely with code -1073741819 (0xC0000005); please re-check parameters

Win7 64 Bit
C2Q Q9400
Foobar2000 1.0.1

[john33]

....
Pipe encoding seems broken. Both generic & P4 builds.

CODE

Conversion failed: The encoder has terminated prematurely with code -1073741819 (0xC0000005); please re-check parameters

Win7 64 Bit
C2Q Q9400
Foobar2000 1.0.1

I'm afraid I can't reproduce that here. I've tested on XP Pro SP3 (e4300 @ 3GHz), XP Pro X64 (Atom 330 dual core) and Win7 64 Ultimate (q6600 @ 3.2GHz); all with Foobar 1.0.1. I've tested using ape and wv files, tell me what you're using for input and I'll try that.

(Just as an aside, I'm leaving on vacation just after lunch today and won't return until late on April 11 so if you don't receive any response in the meantime it's because I'll not have any internet access while I'm away, not because I'm ignoring you!! )

[tebasuna51]

I'm afraid I can't reproduce that here. I've tested on XP Pro SP3 (e4300 @ 3GHz), XP Pro X64 (Atom 330 dual core) and Win7 64 Ultimate (q6600 @ 3.2GHz); all with Foobar 1.0.1. I've tested using ape and wv files, tell me what you're using for input and I'll try that.

First, thanks for the new binaries.

The format sources in Foobar2000 aren't relevant because Foobar2000 always send WAV format to the encoders.

Using XP Pro SP3 (e4600 @ 2.4GHz), pipe issues:

For me work Foobar2000 v1.0.1 convert, but using other 'pipes' crash OggEnc2 with Error Code: 0xC0000005 (old oggenc2 work)

Eac3to crash:
eac3to.exe 6w321.wav stdout.wav | OggEnc2 -q 3 -o eac3to_pipe.ogg -
WAV, 5.1 channels, 0:00:20, 16 bits, 4608kbps, 48khz
Reading WAV...
Writing WAV...
Creating file "stdout.wav"...
Writing the destination file failed. <ERROR>
Aborted at file position 1310720. <ERROR>

AviSynth pipe crash:
wavi WavSource.avs - | oggenc2 -o AviSynth_pipe.ogg -
Found PCM audio: 6 channels, 48000 Hz, 16 bits, 20.000000 seconds.
Writing WAV file...
Opening with wav module: WAV file reader
Error: Could not write to the standard output.

Faad pipe crash:
faad -w entrada.mp4 | oggenc2 -o Faad_pipe.ogg -
...
Opening with wav module: WAV file reader
(crash)