* MP3 decoding support in Cygwin
@ 2016-11-13 20:07 Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-05-05 20:52 ` MP3 " Yaakov Selkowitz
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From: Yaakov Selkowitz @ 2016-11-13 20:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-apps
As you may have heard, Red Hat legal has determined that MP3 decoding
support may now be freely distributed, and hence is being added to
Fedora proper. This applies to Cygwin as well, and therefore (as I just
announced), mpg123 and libmad have been added to the distribution.
(GStreamer has had MP3 playback support since February via the acmmp3dec
plugin, which wraps Windows ACM.) Free to use these libraries in any of
your packages.
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.
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
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* Re: MP3 support in Cygwin
2016-11-13 20:07 MP3 decoding support in Cygwin Yaakov Selkowitz
@ 2017-05-05 20:52 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
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From: Yaakov Selkowitz @ 2017-05-05 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-apps
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
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