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Encode any file to PNG image or WAV and vise versa, binary safe
When converting to PNG, if the original file ends with one or more NUL control character, it will be removed after decoding back
Usage of pngcoder:
pngcoder [--decode] [--quiet] [--verbose] input_file output_file
positional arguments:
input_file Source file
output_file Destination file
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--quiet, -q Quiet mode
--verbose, -v If passed, a message will be shown for each row of image
decoding
--decode, -d If passed, source file will be decoded
Usage of wavcoder:
wavcoder [-h] [--quiet] [--decode] [--samplerate SAMPLERATE] [--channels CHANNELS] input_file output_file
positional arguments:
input_file Source file
output_file Destination file
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--quiet, -q Quiet mode
--decode, -d If passed, input file will be decoded from WAV
--samplerate SAMPLERATE, -s SAMPLERATE
Sample rate. Default: 8000
--channels CHANNELS, -c CHANNELS
Number of channels. Default: 1
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Encode (obfuscate) any file to PNG or WAV and vise versa
We found that pngcoder demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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