transKode 0.6
2006/05/02

About:
KDE/Qt based frontend for varios audio transcoding tools.

Supported input formats:
 * ape/mac (needs mac or gst-launch)
 * bonk (needs bonk)
 * flac (needs flac, mplayer or gst-launch)
 * la (needs la)
 * mp3 (needs lame, mplayer or gst-launch)
 * mp4/m4a (needs faad, mplayer or gst-launch)
 * mpc/mpp/mp+ (needs mppdec or gst-launch)
 * ofr (needs ofr)
 * ogg (needs oggdec, mplayer or gst-launch)
 * pac (needs lpac)
 * shn (needs shorten or gst-launch)
 * spx (needs speexdec or gst-launch)
 * tta (needs ttaenc or gst-launch)
 * wav
 * wv (needs wvunpack or gst-launch)
 * ...plus any other audio formats decodable by mplayer/gst-launch
   (needs gst-launch with spider plugin)

Supported output formats:
 * ape/mac (needs mac)
 * bonk (needs bonk)
 * flac (needs flac)
 * la (needs la)
 * mp3 (needs lame)
 * mp4/m4a (needs faac)
 * mpc/mpp/mp+ (needs mppenc)
 * ofr (needs ofr)
 * ogg (needs oggenc)
 * pac (needs lpac)
 * shn (needs shorten)
 * spx (needs speexenc)
 * tta (needs ttaenc)
 * wav
 * wv (needs wavpack)
 * ...plus output formats for which you have gstreamer encoding plugins
   (needs gst-launch with wavparse plugin)

Required dependencies:
 * amaroK >= 1.3 (http://amarok.kde.org/) (Amarok script only)
 * TagLib >= 1.4 (http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html)

Optional dependencies:
 * Bonk Audio (http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/bonk)
 * FAAC/FAAD (http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac/)
 * FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net)
 * GStreamer (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/)
 * LAME (http://lame.sourceforge.net)
 * LPAC (http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/wer/liebchen/lpac.html)
 * Lossless Audio (http://www.lossless-audio.com/)
 * Monkey's Audio Port (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port/)
 * MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu)
 * Musepack (http://musepack.net)
 * OGG Vorbis (http://www.vorbis.com)
 * OptimFROG (http://www.losslessaudio.org/)
 * Shorten (http://www.hornig.net/shorten/)
 * Speex (http://www.speex.org/)
 * Streamripper (http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/)
 * True Audio (http://www.true-audio.com)
 * WavPack (http://www.wavpack.com/)

Note that you don't need all of this programs to use transKode,
(especifically, you may omit most of the listed decoders if you have an
installed mplayer or gstreamer capable of decoding the related formats).

Credits:
Amarok script originally based on AUDIO FORMAT CONVERTER v.6 by Michael Mitton
(http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=23653)

Author:
Sergio Pistone <sergio_pistone@yahoo.com.ar>
Released under the GNU GPL
