From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 127264 invoked by alias); 13 Nov 2016 20:07:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 124912 invoked by uid 89); 13 Nov 2016 20:07:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*MI:cygwin, acm, february, February X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 20:07:13 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85E4D4E4CC for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 20:07:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.10.116.38] (ovpn-116-38.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.116.38]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id uADK7B6g017975 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 15:07:12 -0500 From: Yaakov Selkowitz Subject: MP3 decoding support in Cygwin To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Message-ID: <8d6bb0db-a60f-6dfa-5b25-87cbad467392@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 20:07:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 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