Bug 393360 - Improve list of supported audio formats per platform
Summary: Improve list of supported audio formats per platform
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: krita
Classification: Applications
Component: Animation (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: git master (please specify the git hash!)
Platform: Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Emmet O'Neill
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Reported: 2018-04-21 04:14 UTC by Scott Petrovic
Modified: 2020-04-14 04:12 UTC (History)
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Description Scott Petrovic 2018-04-21 04:14:34 UTC
I tried all the different audio formats and only the MP3 version seems to load and playback.

The other formats say there was an error loading, but then the error message area is blank afterwards where I would think it would explain why.
Comment 1 Scott Petrovic 2018-04-21 04:20:27 UTC
Doing a little bit of reading, maybe Windows has a different set of audio formats it supports.

https://forum.qt.io/topic/57675/which-file-formats-or-codecs-does-qmediaplayer-support

Which this article says the Windows version supports DirectShow...which are these options... https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd407173%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
Comment 2 Alvin Wong 2018-05-18 13:18:44 UTC
If it is using DirectShow, then the formats supported depend on what DirectShow filters are available on the system. There are a lot of third-party DirectShow filters to support different formats and codecs, and it's up to users to install the filters they want to use. When it comes to  DirectShow filters, I can think of ffdshow, perhaps you can give it a try?
Comment 3 Scott Petrovic 2018-05-18 16:00:23 UTC
we currently give a list of audio formats that Krita can import. The goal of this ticket might just be to update our documentation on what audio formats are supported on different operating systems.

See this page
https://docs.krita.org/Audio_for_Animation
Comment 4 Alvin Wong 2018-05-18 16:12:12 UTC
If installing DirectShow filters does get Krita to support more format, we might as well add that to the docs. I haven't tried it though.
Comment 5 joupent 2018-10-09 14:31:34 UTC
Looks like Qt provides a handy function to query for support by mime-type and codecs: QMediaPlayer::hasSupport. 

However, the results it gives do not seem to match with actual support. For example, here it reports wav as not supported, while playing them without a problem.
Comment 6 Emmet O'Neill 2020-04-14 04:12:12 UTC
We'll look at the range of supported formats once audio is working more consistently across platforms.