On 04/06/2005 08:14:13 AM, Dawid Zamirski wrote:
Sorry, but I think I should revise my question. My intention was to ask you whether there are any LEGAL concerns that prevent from including Musepack support in FC?
The source needs some work - I can get mpcenc to build, but I can not get mpcdec to build. There's no configure system with the source either - not that there necessarily must be one, but it's better when there is one.
Given the type of software it is, there probably would need to be a patent audit - software patents are generally evil - I think they maybe wouldn't be if there was more intelligence in the granting process, but ...
If there are not legal concerns, my understanding is that it is a very high quality compression, and that mp3/ogg/aac files that are as transparent as mpc are much fatter. It would be nice to have.
Keep in mind though that a gstreamer plugin doesn't mean Rhythmbox will play it - it might, I don't know - but it won't recognize my aac files and I have the aac plugin.
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