Tdesktop: Add playback support for more audio formats

[diazbastian]

Tested on:
Telegram Desktop 0.9.20 dev
Telegram for Android 3.6.1 (753)
Telegram for iOS 3.6

The following audio formats works for Telegram for mobile devices(Android/iOS) and not for TDesktop:

• PCM/WAV
• MKA container (vorbis/aac codec) - Perhaps other codecs already supported like flac, mp3, etc (no tested)
• WMA (normal and lossless)

Cheers

[susnux]

And also tdesktop depends on opus and ffmpeg but it can not play opus audio files.
Adding this would be awesome!

[diazbastian]

@susnux
I also use opus codec to my songs, however, Telegram uses opus codec for encoding voice messages. I think that would cause a conflict. I prefer support is of the same audio formats that Android and iOS.
Regards

[haevalencia]

:+1: @susnux I keep my recordings on opus from other apps, but can't be played on telegram desktop by technical issues not much to do.

[haevalencia]

Today ask directly to the TSI and they said Telegram supports the audio formats supported by the mobile OS. Maybe add the codec and container comparable on both platforms?

[stephanlinke]

Can confirm that MP3 doesn't work as well - not played (it only tries to and fails). Tried with multiple files and samples :(

[haevalencia]

@telegramdesktop What is the status of analysis to add more support for other audio formats as said in #1745 ?
I think the new version of Telegram include an integrated video player. It would be good that at least Telegram Desktop equated support for playing audio files. Cheers.

[PeterMX]

I want support for opus, I have a lot of my music in opus format

[diazbastian]

@PeterMX audio using opus codec with *.ogg extensión work fine on in-app audio player

[Socialdarwinist]

After encoding a short clip I wanted to use as a meme, I only succeeded after several tries because of Telegram’s limited support – using it on Arch Linux.
Matroška and WebM were not playable at all inside the Telegram client, just MP4, and when I uploaded MP4, the sound did not play if it wasn’t encoded in AAC, for example if encoded with Opus or libav AC-3. It should be a thing to use MKV and WebM, they are only container formats (leaving the same file size for the resulting file), and AC-3 is allegedly not covered by patents since 2017, and Opus is from the free software environment.

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[haevalencia]

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[w3bb]

FLAC support would be awesome. The playback button is missing from Desktop.

Also webm would be nice.

[soredake]

any progress on this?

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