[Retrocode-news] QCELP codec for ALL platforms

[Till T. <me...@mm...>]

Good News Everyone,

 

Just a quick heads-up.

 

QCELP

I've been asked for such thing multiple times, hence I thought its worth
putting some efforts into it. So far, RetroCode was using the binary codec
library released by Qualcomm (purevoicesdk). Trouble is, that codec is only
available on windows and linux platforms. As RetroCode itself by now is
pretty much platform agnostic, things needed a change.

There is a new version of RetroCode coming up that will support QCELP on
virtually any platform.  

That new version will use a slightly altered reference codec released by
Qualcomm through 3GPP2 in full sources (ANSI 733). First I will release a
patch for that reference implementation that allows processing of mobile
QCELP/QCP streams (the reference implementation didn't allow that).  Then
RetroCode itself will be released in an updated version featuring that new
codec.

I got everything working in a still kind of ugly development version - but
please gimme a bit more time to polish things up a bit.

 

LINUX BINARIES

Also I am still owing you a binary linux release of RetroCode and RetroFID.
That got delayed cause my linux machine also is functioning as a webserver,
pretty much preventing me from doing big changes on the base-system as that
would possibly endanger my commercial webservice (RetroFolio). Thing is that
ffmpeg (used by RetroCode for some codecs) has tough demands on the
compiling machine and my server simply doesn't match them as of now. So, as
often, getting things to work puts out of rattlesnake of tasks. I would love
to cut this short and simply use a different machine without endangering my
commercial services. To get that base covered, I will most likely need a lot
more time and/or money. Both isn't available right now, hence the delay.

 

UPDATES AND FIXES

The next release of the documentation will feature an update on compiling
instructions, helping you to get things compiled on virtually any platform.
Thanks to HP's DSPP program, I was able to compile RetroCode in most parts
on a FreeBSD machine. My learnings from that went into that updated
documentation.

Sources of RetroCode and RetroFID have been updated to make them easier to
reuse in other projects (header dependencies were reduced and straightened).

 

So stay tuned, RetroCode is becoming even better ;)

 

Cheers,

-          Till Toenshoff