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pacpl-4.0.5p2

PAC (Perl Audio Converter)

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Description

Perl Audio Converter is a tool for converting multiple audio types from one format to another. It supports MP2, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Shorten, Monkey Audio, FAAC (AAC/M4A/MP4), Musepack (MPC), Wavpack (WV), OptimFrog (OFR/OFS), TTA, LPAC, Kexis (KXS), AIFF, AC3, Lossless Audio (LA), AU, SND, RAW, VOC, SMP, RealAudio (RA/RAM), WAV, and WMA. It can also convert audio from the following video formats/extensions: RM, RV, ASF, DivX, MPG, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, QT, VCD, VOB, FLV, and WMV. A CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch and playlist conversion, daemon mode for converting files on the fly, tag preservation for most supported formats, independent tag reading/writing, and extensions for konqueror and amarok are also provided. To enable the PAC plugin in Amarok: Tools -> Script Manager: General -> pacx -> Run

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Ports path
audio/pacpl
Package architecture
*
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
audio, converters, perl5
Available flavors
None listed

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