
TAK DirectShow Source Filter
by  Livio Cavallo (C) 2010

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	dsfTAKSource v 0.0.1.6

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INSTALLATION:

- Extract TAK-DSFilter.zip files in a temporary folder (C:\Temp)

- Open a command promt (cmd) as Administrator

- Change current dir to temporary folder (cd C:\Temp) and execute Install.bat

- Click on "OK", "Yes", "Ok" buttons in the Message Boxes
  about Serever Registration and Registry Configuration.


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INPUT:

	dsfTAKSource is a DirectShow push source filter for
	Tom's lossless audio files (TAK).
	It performs decoding of .tak audio files using
	Tom's decoding library v 2.2.0 (tak_deco_lib.dll).


OUTPUT:
	dsfTAKSource outputs data in PCM format using
	WAVEFORMATEX structurefor audio with a maximum
	of 2 channels, 16 bits and 44.1KHz, as per standard.

	dsfTAKSource outputs data in PCM format using
	WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE structure in all other cases
	(although tak_deco_lib.dll still does not support
	such extended audio formats).

FUNCTIONS:
	dsfTAKSource supports standard seeking
	(via ISourceSeeking interface).
	dsfTAKSource does not support backward playing.

	dsfTAKSource  actually does not support tagging.

	dsfTAKSource is integrated in Windows Shell (Play command)
	and Windows Media Player (MIME types, Media Groups,
	WMP Extensions, Player extensions and Library
	Classification Entries), via a registry
	configuration file (TAK_Registration.reg)


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Using this filter you'll be able to use ".tak" files as you use
regular ".mp3" or ".wav" audio files, for reading and playing.

I hope this filter could help TAK compression format diffusion:
encoding end decoding are very fast, with good compression ratios.
This is a good result for a lossless audio compression algorithm.

TAK compression format is developed by Thomas Becker
	http://thbeck.de/Tak/Tak.html

TOM is active on Hydrogenaudio (www.hydrogenaudio.org).
You can find pages about TAK here:
	wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=TAK
	www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=73665

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This filter has been developed by Livio Cavallo.

CONTACTS:
	cavallo.livio@tiscali.it
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