public inbox for cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: MP3 support in Cygwin
Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 20:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34fe04ac-4dd5-24fd-1f22-fb976ad067b4@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8d6bb0db-a60f-6dfa-5b25-87cbad467392@cygwin.com>

On 2016-11-13 14:07, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> Please note that *only* MP3 *decoding* support is being allowed at this
> time.  So no LAME (or twoLAME), nor MPEG *video* decoding (smpeg or
> libmpeg2), etc., until further notice.

MP3 encoding support is now allowed as well, and so I have added lame 
(and mingw*-lame) to the distribution, and rebuilt my packages which can 
use it.  Other MPEG technologies still must wait until further notice.

> While we cannot comment on any specific patents, if you have any
> questions as to whether a particular package may be permitted, please
> feel free to ask here.

-- 
Yaakov

      reply	other threads:[~2017-05-05 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-13 20:07 MP3 decoding " Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-05-05 20:52 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=34fe04ac-4dd5-24fd-1f22-fb976ad067b4@cygwin.com \
    --to=yselkowitz@cygwin.com \
    --cc=cygwin-apps@cygwin.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).