Re: [rdesktop-devel] Re: anyone tryed the sound support?

[Matt C. <mat...@cs...>]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:36:14AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 23:55, Matt Chapman wrote:
> > Huh?!
> > 
> > As far as I remember the MS RDP client uses (MS) ADPCM.  I was thinking
> > of pulling the code out of sox.
> 
> Why?  Why not just have sox as a requirement and pass the sounds off to
> it?  I think this would save some time and effort, not to mention reduce
> code size since there's no duplication of code from an already working
> and mature product.  Just to let you know, calling to sox is exactly how
> LinRDP and Winconnect do it.

I'd considered this, but as far as I can tell sox doesn't work on a number
of the platforms that rdesktop has been ported to (e.g. Windows, OS/2, VMS).
Plus if you've got an embedded or single floppy image then you'd have to
include sox as well, and sox is a no small program (230K here).

It looks pretty trivial to pull adpcm.c/adpcm.h out of sox.

Matt