Native Alac (and other Codecs) support

Cryx · 13 July 2020 14:04

I have lots of Music in Apple Lossless format (Alac) which isn’t supported by Sailfish OS from scratch. There was a trick in the old forum (https://together.jolla.com/question/199018/how-to-install-gst-libav/), but that doesn’t work anymore - at least for me.

So first, this is a call for official support of Alac (and other missing Codecs) by default.

Second, it’s a call for help to get alac re-enabled. I had Alac running with the hints from the link above, but some weeks ago storeman offered gstreamer updates. I installed these, but finally killed my camera. Reinstalling the camera and updating necessary files from terminal brought the camera back but killed the former enabled alac support - this was (as said) once installed like described in the link above, but this procedure does not help any longer.
Any hints?

jollajo · 13 July 2020 17:05

Does the installation of the codec kill the camera app, only? If yes you may try to use Advanced Camera, MiracuCam or Android apps such as Open Camera`. I’d guess the loss of Jolla’s cameral app is not a big loss if alternatives still work.

francko · 13 July 2020 19:26

don’t have an idea to bring back ALAC support to Sailfish OS but i use the Music App “Quasar MX” from Storeman. Best Music App I ever used and plays all my ALAC files without hassle.

Cryx · 14 July 2020 12:06

I got the camera back, but that killed the codec. So it’s the other way round…

abranson · 27 June 2022 14:13

ALAC has now been enabled in ffmpeg. You should be able to play these files in the next release of SFOS.

rainemak · 18 July 2022 14:37

ALAC is enabled along with 4.4.0.68 release.

Cryx · 22 July 2022 17:17

@rainemak I was happy to read that, but on both Jolla C as well as Xperia 10 III I still get the error message that Alac isn’t supported. I updated Jolla C today, 10 III yesterday. Both have SFOS 4.4.0.68 now… But as said, it doesn’t work.

Edit: Codec works, but there seems to be a bug in Media Player when trying to play an Alac file. I’ll try a little further and set up a bug report.