Xpra: Ticket #246: support vorbis and flac sound encoding

At the moment xpra-0.8.x has incomplete "vorbis" and "flac" audio forwarding support leaving only "mp3" as working alternative (I couldn't make "aac" work on client despite having the same packages installed).

MP3 is just retarded comparing to Vorbis in regards to bandwidth and audio quality (not to mention support for more than 2 channels).

AAC is not-so-free?

Flac is great license- and quality-wise (loseless) so IMHO the best order for codecs would be Vorbis > Flac > MP3 > AAC.

Please support Vorbis and Flac.



Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:35:34 GMT - Antoine Martin: status, milestone changed; owner set

Yes, this is planned, in fact the code already supports specifying the codecs, the gstreamer support code is mostly there, etc - only needs a little bit more work. But there was not enough time to get this tested properly for 0.8, hopefully this can be completed in time for 0.9. There are other, more important issues to do with sound though: buffering and latency being the main problem.


As can be seen here: browser/tags/v0.8.x/src/xpra/sound/gstreamer_util.py, the codecs that are meant to be supported (eventually) are exactly what you ask for, namely: vorbis, flac, aac and mp3.


Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:08:01 GMT - Antoine Martin: summary, description, version, milestone changed


Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:54:11 GMT - Antoine Martin:

r2833 adds support for wav and flac. vorbis and aac just stubbornly refuse to work.

Here's how you can test the code from the command line. This is easier than starting a session with a pulseaudio server and all the codec arguments and then starting a media player, etc:

You can repeat this with the other supported file extensions: ".flac" and ".wav".


Now, to add support for more formats (say vorbis, ac3 or aac for example - or maybe even some more obscure ones like amr, gsm or dca?), here is what is needed:

When it does not, like the "vorbis" example above, weep.


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Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:02:07 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed; resolution set

Not going to bother with vorbis and aac since there are better alternatives.

As of now, we support:

win32 needs a newer build of gstreamer to support "opus", maybe #299 will help


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 04:49:30 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/246