From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Sep 15 02:42:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA28510 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 02:42:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA28498 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 02:42:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA18426; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 10:42:09 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 10:42:09 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Daniel O'Connor" cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, 95ec133@svrec.ernet.in Subject: Re: information about mpeg3 audio compression In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > 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. That sucks. How can Frauhofer have a patent on an international standard (rhetorical question). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message