Gstreamer-plugins splitting ports .. needs testing and feed back ?

[Michael Johnson]

On Oct 6, 2004, at 4:19 PM, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:

> On Wednesday 06 October 2004 21:50, Michael Johnson wrote:
>> but only a select few ports use ogg/vorbis and cdparanoia
>>
>
> Well, with mp3 license problems, it's one of the safest path.
> Most GPL products go now in that way.  Linux, KDE ..
> Right now, any mp3 encoder is threaded.  It's not only lame.
> And problems with mp3 decoders are not closed.
>
> Yes.  Right Now, all is mp3.  But if you want digital music in your pc
> next year from packages,  better have ogg/vorbis and vorbis-tools
> (encoder) everywhere.

The mp3 license problem will never be a problem for gstreamer-plugins,
due to the fact it does not have any mp3 encoder/decoder by itself.
If this becomes a problem in the future they will add RESTRICTED or
similar to lame, mad, etc and not gstreamer-plugins.

> About cdparanoia.  I'm using it in every app related to CD music.  It
> works as good as cdrecord's cdda2wav and don't need special rights.
>
> Well, this is more a personal taste.
>
>> Michael
>>
>
> --
>   josemi
>