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Every so often, someone asks if VLC could supportMIDI,the de-facto industry standard for digital music instruments.
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As a matter of facts, VLC already supports MIDI - to some extent.The Standard MIDI Files (
*.MID
) parser pluginwas published in October 2007.In April 2008, RIFF files (*.RMI
) support was added.That plugin was in VLC releases since version 0.9.0.At the time of writing (July 2009),VLC does however not support hardware MIDI inputsneither networked MIDI over RTP.Also, support for other file formats is missing, including:
- Karaoke files (
*.KAR
) and - Extended MIDI files (
*.XMI
), found in many old games.
As a matter of facts, I am looking for legal and good documentationon the XMI format (not XMF!), so that support could be added as well.
Synthesis
But then, VLC still needs to synthesize sounds from the MIDI events.Unfortunately, hardware synthesis with the audio adapterwould be rather tricky.Indeed, the VLC audio mixing and output core subsystemwas designed for PCM samples (with special support for S/PDIF).Also, while FM synthesis was common in the good old days (notably DOS games),most modern (cheap) audio adapters,such as AC'97 audio controllers or Intel HDA cards,lack hardware synthesizer anyway.
Vr player helper for mac. So VLC resorts to software synthesis with a sound font file(
*.SF2
)through the Fluidsynthopen-source library.Timidity is more commonly used, but it is not availableas a C programming library out of the box.That raises two potential problems: Vectorworks 2008 serial number crack.
- First, the Fluidsynth plugin must be enabled.Many binary packagers omit it.It should be visible in the list of codecs from the preferences dialog,if it is supported by your particular VLC build.
- Second, a sound font must be obtained separately, and configured.If you know a decent compact GPL-compatible sound fount, please contact meso we can include it in the future VLC releases..
If not included in your version, you may need to complain to your packager,and build VLC from source yourself.You can easily find free sound fonts websites from Google;then tell VLC where to find it from the preferences dialog(Codecs / Fluidsynth).
Now you can play MIDI files!
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