Maxim's Atrac3plus decoder

[Marcelo_20XX]

So recently I was wondering what happened to the decoder Maxim was working on? did he finished or quitted the project. I don't see it incorporated on the FFMPEG library either, so I am guessing is the later, I am wrong?

[xZabuzax]

I'm guessing he's still working on it but he's so silent about it that sometimes i get a bit worried too.

Would be nice if he keep us updated on it, he should do a blog about it or something...

[maximumspatium]

Would be nice if he keep us updated on it, he should do a blog about it or something...

Well, below the requested update:

Yes, I'm still working on this long-awaited ATRAC3+ decoder and would like to see it finished ASAP. Anyway, one of the first patch sets preparing some FFmpeg internals has been pushed yesterday:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=...ac870ef85c

I'm currently prepare a patch set for the decoder itself that has been finished this summer. Because the source code is huge (it counts of approx. 5000 lines of C code; several parts of it have been written quick and dirty), bringing it into the shape of being publicitly released has took a considerable amount of time.

The patch will be submitted to FFmpeg for review next WE. Taking in account its size (see above), I expect several more weeks of reviewing, back-and-forth patches, testing etc. until the code will be finally merged with the FFmpeg codebase.

I therefore ask for your patience and understanding - we all do our best to get things ready ASAP!

BTW, Henrik has recently reported that a test version I gave him a couple of weeks ago works flawlessly.

Best regards
Maxim

[Ritori]

5000 lines of C code!!
that sure alot..

[xZabuzax]

Well this is a surprise, Maxim's first post came with a bang and authority, i like it.

Thanks for stopping by and letting us know how things were going with your long awaited Atrac3plus decoder, and 5k lines of code, that sure is huge.

Reverse engineering that Atrac3plus must have been a royal pain in the ass, but i'm glad you managed to do it, it takes a hero to do difficult task like that.

[[Unknown]]

Thanks for posting that update here.

No surprise that it might take a few weeks to review, and I'm sure it took a good chunk of time to write those 5000 lines too. I'm sure you know it's well appreciated.

-[Unknown]

[cyclonmaster]

Thumbs up for the update. Thanks a lot maxim.

[Henrik]

Not only did the preliminary version that Maxim gave me work flawlessly on the bunch of games I tested it on (I have to add a disclaimer that I obviously didn't test it on the entire PSP game library though), but it appears to run considerably faster than our current "solution". So CPU usage when playing Atrac3+ music will decrease for those of you who have been using the plugin, improving speed somewhat.

I've already thanked you before for your hard work Maxim but thanks again, hope the review process goes as smoothly as possible.

[arg274]

5000 lines of C code!!
that sure alot..

thats nothing!the source code of hsg2:demo and mgspw are about 3,00,000 lines each! (dun ask i got them 4m the game...)

[Hykem]

Nice to see the decoder is finally making it's way to FFmpeg. Great work Maxim.

During the past months I've been testing the decoder privately as well and I would like to take this opportunity to merge my reports with Henrik's.
After getting the decoder running and sorting a few issues on my side, it appears to be working on over 150 different games and is capable of decoding 6346 different files (all extracted from different games and with a huge help from nash67 at Emunewz.net).

I can't thank you enough for all this work and I wish you the best luck for the rest of the process. Even though it will take a while for ATRAC3+ to reach JPCSP (still has to go through Xuggler), PPSSPP will be able to implement it soon and give people the so long awaited missing sound.

Regards,
Hykem

[hsark]

thanks for the update and hard work maxim.

[Henrik]

And thanks Hykem for reporting your additional test results, great

[VIRGIN KLM]

Great work! One question though, since the decoder is written in C wouldn't it need translation to C++ for PPSSPP?

[[Unknown]]

C++ can call C code just fine without any translation or etc. Pretty sure all of FFmpeg is written in C already, and we already use it.

-[Unknown]

[vnctdj]

Would be nice if he keep us updated on it, he should do a blog about it or something...

Well, below the requested update:

Yes, I'm still working on this long-awaited ATRAC3+ decoder and would like to see it finished ASAP. Anyway, one of the first patch sets preparing some FFmpeg internals has been pushed yesterday:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=...ac870ef85c

I'm currently prepare a patch set for the decoder itself that has been finished this summer. Because the source code is huge (it counts of approx. 5000 lines of C code; several parts of it have been written quick and dirty), bringing it into the shape of being publicitly released has took a considerable amount of time.

The patch will be submitted to FFmpeg for review next WE. Taking in account its size (see above), I expect several more weeks of reviewing, back-and-forth patches, testing etc. until the code will be finally merged with the FFmpeg codebase.

I therefore ask for your patience and understanding - we all do our best to get things ready ASAP!

BTW, Henrik has recently reported that a test version I gave him a couple of weeks ago works flawlessly.

Best regards
Maxim

Thanks a lot for your hard work
Let's be patient to see it implemented in PPSSPP