Apple Lossless - Other Players

Other Players

David Hammerton and Cody Brocious have analyzed and decoded this codec without any documents on the format. On March 5, 2005, Hammerton published a simple open source decoder in the programming language C on the basis of the reverse engineering work.

The open source library libavcodec incorporates both a decoder and an encoder for Apple Lossless format which means that media players based on that library, including VLC media player and MPlayer, are able to play Apple Lossless files, as well as many media centre applications for home theatre computers, such as Plex, XBMC, and Boxee. The library was subsequently optimized for ARM processors and included in Rockbox.

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