Re: [MP3 ENCODER] [ot]patent issues and open source

2002-02-04 Thread Menno Bakker
However, I do not provide binaries and I state in the readme Please note that parts of this software can be under patent right restrictions and thus cannot be used freely in some countries., but I got a letter about patent infringements which demands to stop all distribution of

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] [ot]patent issues and open source

2002-02-04 Thread alexander lerch
Hi, Gabriel Bouvigne wrote: You can definitively publish source code only. I received the same kind of letter from Dolby about AAC source code, explaining that they could even sue me. I responded back that source code is fully legal, and that I'll never remove the source code. It was

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] [ot]patent issues and open source

2002-02-04 Thread Ivan Dimkovic
Gabriel, - Original Message - From: Gabriel Bouvigne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 8:44 AM Subject: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] [ot]patent issues and open source You can definitively publish source code only. I received the same kind of letter from

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] [ot]patent issues and open source

2002-02-04 Thread Gabriel Bouvigne
Where did you get the information that source code is fully legal? The source code itself doesn't do anything. It's just a written description of something. The description of a patent is publicaly available, as it's the principle of patents. So another description is as legal as the patent

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] [ot]patent issues and open source

2002-02-04 Thread Ivan Dimkovic
Slightly off-topic, but if I remember correctly, Dolby also demanded from NetBSD to cease distribution of AC3DEC software, which is a source-code of the AC-3 decoder implementation. In their warning letter (also signed by Christy Bonner) they said that Dolby has all intellectual rights

[MP3 ENCODER] segmentation fault in lame 3.91

2002-02-04 Thread Felix Natter
hi, I get this segfault whenever I try to encode with lame 3.91: Current directory is /home/felix/src/lame-3.91/frontend/ GNU gdb 19990928 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or

[MP3 ENCODER] CD Ripper Beta Software: RipTrax

2002-02-04 Thread John Lundy
I am new to this list and hope that I am not breaking with list etiquette by this post. Anyway, here goes... I have been working on a CD Ripper for Windows for the past several weeks. I have reached the point where it is at or very close to a beta code base. I have set up a home page for the

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[MP3 ENCODER] Re: BCP: CD ripping

2002-02-04 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 28 Jan, Martin Faxér wrote: I personally don't think that you will have a problem with the output quality of GOGO, but if you do, I guess you can check out LAME (although GOGO is supposed to be based on it). GOGO is based upon an older version of LAME, I don't know if they ported recent

RE: [MP3 ENCODER] Re: mp3encoder digest, Vol 1 #103 - 2 msgs

2002-02-04 Thread Christopher G
MP3 Pro is only good for getting mediocre quality mp3s at low bitrates, and WMA files often have a time limit attached cannot be transferred. How about we NOT move on? == Originally sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Hi just some comments. I think mp3 is going obsolete pretty

Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Re: MS Stereo

2002-02-04 Thread Ivan Dimkovic
Good idea, but I'm afraid that doing only this it would still miss: *very short tones (less than 3 granules long) *tones rapidly changing of freqs (sweeps) But yes, doing forward and backward prediction is a good idea. Well.. there are several alternative methods, check out the method

[MP3 ENCODER] Moving on from MP3

2002-02-04 Thread engdev
MP3 - has some (I believe) serious design flaws which the LAME developers and others have been trying to eliminate MP3Pro - Only really aimed at low bit rates MP3plus - Looks like a good format... the developer *seems* to have taken the good stuff out of MP3 and added