Empitu Encoder – a Windows GUI front-end for TwoLAME

Empitu Encoder is (will be) a MPEG Audio Layer II (MP2) encoder with a GUI front-end for modern Win32 platforms. It is based on the DirectShow API and shall be compatible to Windows XP (or possibly 2000) and later versions.

For the encoding engine, it uses TwoLAME, an open-source MP2 encoder library.

This program is also an example of registration-free COM objects (DirectX Media Objects) implemented with Embarcadero C++Builder.

Subcomponents

This program will consist of these subcomponents:

• MP2 Encoder DMO. This is the encoder back-end packaged as a DirectX Media Object (DMO).
• ID3 Mux. This is a multiplexer filter that wraps a MPEG audio stream into an ID3-tagged one. It shall work not only with MP2 streams but also with MP3 as it parses no audio frames.
• Graphical front-end.

Contents of this wiki

• Answers to common questions
• Versions and milestones
• Components
• Implementation notes