On 2001.01.07 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > I think that ripping and encoding mp3 and even sharing using napster is
> > very usual nowadays.
> > Mandrake 7.2 includes grip and paranoia, but to complete the use of grip
> > it is necesary also an encoder, like lame or bladeenc. I have used both
> > and are very stable. Why do no put in the cooker and in the next
> > mandrake release lame and bladeenc rpms?
>
> Mandrake 7.2 includes an Ogg Vorbis audio encoder. Grip is even configured
> to use it. Ogg Vorbis is a very good, free software, patent-free,
> royalties-free, audio encoder.
I'm tired of hearing that. The fact is that mp3 is the de-facto standrad.
Lets see if this helps:
(from http://hive.me.gu.edu.au/not_lame/patent.html)
... all developers and publishers of MPEG-audio layer 3 (MP3)
encoders based on ISO-source must pay a license fee to Fraunhofer
Institute.
Fraunhofer has been the main developer of MPEG audio Layer-3, and
the MP3 standard is mainly based on its work, which Fraunhofer has
protected with a patent. This patent has been approved in 1989 in
Germany and in 1996 in the USA (after the establishment of the MP3
standard) under number 5,579,430, but not in other countries.
You can try to write an MP3 encoder without using Fraunhofer's
encoding scheme, so you will not have to pay, but it's obvious
that it's nearly impossible.
And in lame site (http://lame.sourceforge.net):
Following the great history of GNU naming, LAME originally stood for
LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME started life as a GPL'd patch against
the dist10 ISO demonstration source, and thus was incapable of
producing an mp3 stream or even being compiled by itself. But in
May 2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, and
now LAME is the source code for a fully GPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed
and quality to rival all commercial competitors.
So lame does not use any of the ISO code. It all depends on the sense of
"without using Fraunhofer's encoding scheme":
- refers to the ISO soft: lame is free
- refers to the algorithms: ???
- refers to the way to select the bits, cut frequencies and so on: lame does
its own way, so its free.
What is really the problem in all this 'subjetive' patent mess ???
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