Opus Audio Support

[thomas0756]

I'm using your library as the backend for a music player I'm working on. It's just worked, unlike pretty much every other library I've tried. The one major format I plan to support that isn't supported is Opus. It's an open format and OwnAudioSharp can already handle the Ogg container, so I'd hope it isn't too awkward to implement.

[ModernMube]

Hi!

Thanks for the kind words!

You're right that the container side already exists: Symphonia demuxes Ogg Opus without any problems, including prefetching. The problem is with the decoder. Symphonia doesn't have an Opus codec (none in 0.5.x, none in the new 0.6.1), and the only pure Rust implementation outputs silence on real music files without an error - worse than not supporting it at all.

The only working option is to link against libopus, which would put C into a deliberately all-Rustic engine.
I don't want to mix Rust code with C code. Maintainability and stability are important!

Not a final no: as soon as Symphonia releases an Opus decoder, it will become a minor change, since the demuxing is already done.
I'm constantly monitoring developments and constantly incorporating them into the API. If there is opus support, OwnAudioSharp will know too!

regards