From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Sep 15 02:33:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA27306 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 02:33:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA27300 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 02:33:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA09537; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:03:07 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:03:06 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Doug Rabson Subject: Re: information about mpeg3 audio compression Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, 95ec133@svrec.ernet.in Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 15-Sep-98 Doug Rabson wrote: > There is a port of the 8hz-mp3 mpeg3 compression utility available in > FreeBSD. Well.. there _was_. It can't be distributed because the 8hz guys got a nice letter from Frauhofer about patent infringments. So the only choice for mp3 compression at the moment is either write your own, or pay Frauhofer US$250 for the Linux version. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message