Well, this is my first post here, hope it's the first of many

Anyway, I've been searching the net for the vorbis acm codec and I can't find it anywhere (as a single package, that is). All I find is rc3 acms, and apparently the only one that has an up-to-date version is nimo's codec package, but I don't want to download it just for the codec. So I was wondering if anyone could inform me on where I could find this file.

Thanks in advance.

Quote from Monty, the principal developer, on 11 Feb 2002:

That kinda sucks . I did a search here and found this site: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA012897/

Anyway, I haven't tested it yet, for some reason it's not working on w2k sp3, but I guess it's preferable to use the dll's and exe's?

Definitely. The ACM specs are what sucks, really.

Yeah, guess so . I tried out the codec from that site and it's worthless . Anyway thanks.

Why ACM ?
Use DirectShow instead !

Check out http://tobias.everwicked.com/

AFAIK, you can't use those in e.g FlasK

I am not really a developer so could someone explain me what's so bad about ACM?

Thanks in advance

ACM doesnt support VBR in fact, while you may be able to use it with some hackery.

But it definitely fails if you have an unknown number of samples in a frame, what may be the case with Vorbis audio ( while its not for other VBR codecs like Lame, AAC, AC3 ) ....

Thanks