[LAU] ABX test (was Re: What is the best MP3 encoder?)

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Thu Apr 4 14:13:40 UTC 2013


On Thursday 04 April 2013 09:37:12 Paul Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:35 AM, J. Liles <malnourite at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's been almost a decade and Debian hasn't packaged my stuff yet either.
> > One must poke and prod.
> >
> > However, after the second level of failed dependencies, I have have to
> > ask, why does squishyball *depend* on opus if it's a general purpose ABX
> > tester?
>
> making a guess ... its a way to read files compressed with the Opus codec,
> just like vorbisfile is a way to read files compressed with Vorbis.

Fine but it looks like the question is why you can't configure without that 
dependency and just lose that ability. At least that is what I understood was 
being asked. (Could easily have missed something.)
>
> libsndfile doesn't cover Opus at this time.
>
> --p

all the best,

drew


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