Musepack should be supported by Matroska

Antonski · 07 July 2010, 12:59 am

Recently I had a chat with the (main) developer of mkvtoolnix, Moritz Bunkus.
As he frankly admitted, "the decision not to work on Musepack
is mostly due to lack of interest on my part ... and due to my lack of arbitrary
amounts of free time".
He is not against Musepack in Matroska in general, though. He said "I'd be very happy to accept proper patches that implement support for Musepack in mkvtoolnix if someone else wrote them".
Needless to say that my coding skills are not enough for such work, otherwise I wouldn't open this topic.
But maybe some of you, guys is experienced enough to implement at least a minimal support in mkvmerge?

Shy · 08 July 2010, 11:26 am

Your thread title may make people think that's an official stance. Matroska is an open source project and one developer can't be expected to implement support for everything himself, even though that's usually the case, especially in audio/video related projects. I don't know anyone with enough interest in Matroska as well as free time to do this, but I'll see. In any case, if any of you developers could spend some time on this, I'm sure it would be much appreciated.

Antonski · 13 July 2010, 10:09 pm

Yes, you are right about the title. I was in a sulky mood writing this, very disappointed after mentioned conversation. Please change the title as you decide.

Shy · 16 July 2010, 06:06 am

No problem, that's understandable. Changed.

07 July 2010, 12:59 am	#1
Antonski Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bulgaria Posts: 102	Musepack should be supported by Matroska Recently I had a chat with the (main) developer of mkvtoolnix, Moritz Bunkus. As he frankly admitted, "the decision not to work on Musepack is mostly due to lack of interest on my part ... and due to my lack of arbitrary amounts of free time". He is not against Musepack in Matroska in general, though. He said "I'd be very happy to accept proper patches that implement support for Musepack in mkvtoolnix if someone else wrote them". Needless to say that my coding skills are not enough for such work, otherwise I wouldn't open this topic. But maybe some of you, guys is experienced enough to implement at least a minimal support in mkvmerge?

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08 July 2010, 11:26 am	#2
Shy Admin Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 372	Your thread title may make people think that's an official stance. Matroska is an open source project and one developer can't be expected to implement support for everything himself, even though that's usually the case, especially in audio/video related projects. I don't know anyone with enough interest in Matroska as well as free time to do this, but I'll see. In any case, if any of you developers could spend some time on this, I'm sure it would be much appreciated.

13 July 2010, 10:09 pm	#3
Antonski Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bulgaria Posts: 102	Yes, you are right about the title. I was in a sulky mood writing this, very disappointed after mentioned conversation. Please change the title as you decide.

16 July 2010, 06:06 am	#4
Shy Admin Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 372	No problem, that's understandable. Changed.