BrutefirDRC 1.2.0 released: now supporting all sample and bitrates
02.01.2010 – 20:34The new release 1.2.0 of BrutefirDRC is out! Features:
- supporting audio files with different samplerate and different bitrates (thanks to Toby again, he changed the wrapper script to make this possible)
- The user can define a directory with his own custom-convert Template files to be used when enabling the plugin
- The PCM conversion has been deleted because FLAC is doing the job equally well
Bitrate and samplingrate
The support for all sample and bitrates has been implemented by Toby. The brutefirwrapper now uses WAV as input and output format. The wrapper script can read the samplerate from the WAV header and resample the underyling filters as needed.
For this to work all conversion templates have been changed to transcode input files to WAV in 24bit format.
Tested formats known to work:
- Flac with a bitrate of 16/24bit and a samplerate of 41000,48000 or 96000
- MP3 with a samplerate of 41000 or 48000 (mp3 does not support samplerates of 96000)
- OGG with a samplerate of 41000,48000 or 96000
- WAV with a bitrate of 16/24bit and a samplerate of 41000,48000 or 96000
Tested formats that are not working on my installation (Ubuntu 9.10 with SqueezeBoxServer version: 7.4.1 – r28947 @ Tue Oct 20 07:58:02 PDT 2009):
- AIFF all sampling and bitratess
- WMA (no WMA-Decoder is included in the installation, so it cannot be transcoded to WAV)
All other formats have not been tested.
Installation
After replacing the old Plugin with the new version you need to
- enable BrutefirDRC for all players that are using it
- change your Brutefir Config-Files to use 24bit input (from sample: “S16_LE”; to sample: “S24_LE”;)!! See the example configuration files in filter_examples_1.2.0.tar.gz