This is a reference implementation of the Simple Audio Compression (SAC) compression algorithms (4-bit and 8-bit DDPCM).
A simple conversion tool is included that enables conversion between SAC and WAVE format files.
The library is written in C++, but the API is plain C.
This is experimental code. The library API will most likely change.
To build the library, run make from the lib folder.
To build to conversion tool, run make from the tools folder.
The default is for libsac to use OpenMP, which requires that you enable OpenMP
when linking to the library (e.g. using -fopenmp for gcc/g++), otherwise you
may get linking errors such as undefined reference to 'omp_get_num_threads'.
To disable the use of OpenMP, build the library using make USE_OPENMP=NO.
For Mac OS X, or generally when using clang, disabling OpenMP may be required.
Please note that encoding will typically be much slower when OpenMP is disabled.
This library is released under the zlib/libpng license:
Copyright (c) 2014 Marcus Geelnard
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