Re: [Bitpim-devel] Windows binaries on Mac?

[Steven P. <n9...@n9...>]

On Dec 12, 2003, at 2:01 AM, Roger Binns wrote:
> BitPim 0.7 has support for sound conversion to and from the
> PureVoice stuff Qualcomm uses.  This is done by two binaries.
> One is ffmpeg which is GPL and provided as source, so it can
> be compiled for anything.  It is used to convert any audio
> source into mono 8KHz pcm.
>
> The second binary is PVConv.exe which is from Qualcomm and
> only available for Windows.  It is a trivial command line
> only tool that does the conversion between mono 8KHz pcm
> and purevoice (or back again).  The binary runs perfectly
> on Linux if you have Wine installed.
>
> So what happens on Mac?

  It won't work. The only way to run Windows binaries on the Mac is 
through either the bochs emulator or VirtualPC.  And even then, I'm not 
sure if there is a "nice" way to handle the interaction. Interestingly 
enough, though, Apple has a QuickTime codec for Qualcomm's PureVoice. I 
wonder if it's the same format (or possible to strip it out) and then 
also how much work is it to access this from Python...

  I'll look into this after the USB issue.

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