msacm: pcm compatibility patch

Christian Costa titan.costa at wanadoo.fr
Sat Dec 11 07:30:39 CST 2004


Hi Robert,

Robert Reif wrote:

> Makes the PCM conversion routines of msacm produce identical results 
> to the native dll.
> Allow any PCM to PCM conversion, not just advertised ones.
>
> The algorithms used by Microsoft in this dll are very crude and
> produce an output of much poorer quality than what is currently
> in wine.  This is unfortunate but unavoidable if we are to be compatible.

I don't see how improving the quality of the conversion could cause 
problems.
Is there an app out there that refuses to run or crashes because of that?
The algorithms may have slightly changed across all versions of this dll.
And if we can do better job than Microsoft, I think we should do it.

>
> I have a test program that was used to verify compatibility and can
> make it available by request.  I hope to integrate some of it into
> the regression tests someday.
>
Bye,
Christian






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