[Toolame-devel] My new release of toolame

[Nicholas H. <nj...@ec...>]

Hi,

I have been doing some work on toolame and decided to show you all 
the work I have done so far:

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njh/toolame/toolame-02n-beta1.tar.gz


I developed it on my Mac (10.3.5) but just tried it on an i686 Linux 
box and it compiled fine, but had stupid runtime problem. I have been 
working quite hard on this without any feedback, so I decided not 
delay the release.


Here is a summary of the work I have done:

	- changed build system to use automake/libtool
	- now builds shared library
	- restructured lots of code
		- Removed some dead code and unused files
	- should now be close to being thread safe
	- removed memory leaks / static variables
	- changed library API so that it is almost the same as LAMEs
		- hopefully not too many people have been using the old API
		- not too many big differences
		- will hopefully add resampling support to next release
		- API is ready for resampling support to be added
		- ready for downmixing to be added to libtoolame
	- Added libsndfile support to toolame frontend (if you have it)
	- moved set/get functions into get_set.c
	- I have broken energy levels support (sorry !) - will try and fix
	- Added LGPL header to the top of all the files
	- Added toolame_encode_buffer_interleaved
	- other stuff I have forgotten



I will try and get the Linux problem worked out and solved ASAP !


Although I have made some major chances, I am not trying to fork the 
code - let me know what you think Mike - I hope I haven't trampled 
all over your code too much or offended you in any way !


I really think that MPEG Layer 2 has some real advantages (licensing 
being a major one !) and hope my changes will allow people to 
integrate a industry standard audio encoder into their Open Source 
product more easily.


Cheers,

nick.