Why?? Is the MP3 format licensed?? There are plenty of freeware programs for emcoding MP3's in Windows, do they pay license fees?? And there are Open Source MP3 encoders, what precludes their inclusion in ML? Why is RipperX included in the distro then?? Just to rip waves and encode OGG files?? I think it is legal to RIP one's own CD's to MP3 for use on one's own PC, so I'm sorry if I don't see the problem here. Please enlighten me and others who may also wonder...
Cheers, Jason Buchan Milne wrote: > No software in Mandrake should be able to write MP3s due to software > patents (see the cinerella thread for example). > > Have you tried with ogg files? And does grip create MP3s? And if so, how? > > ripperX may be a candidate for PLF of course ... > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I have freshened to latest cooker as of now and ripperX will rip just >> fine to wave but it does not encode to MP3 using any of the encoding >> methods. It starts to and then switches of and says not encoding. At >> the end of ripping it states the song has been written to MP3 and the >> file created but the size of the file is always zero. This program >> beats the pants off of Grip IMHO so I think it's important it work >> properly for 9.0. Any ideas?? >> >> The output isn't very helpful but here it is: >> >> [root@host root]# ripperX >> >> Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwindow.c: line 834 (gtk_window_destroy): >> assertion `GTK_IS_WINDOW (object)' failed. >> >> Gtk-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to `GtkObject' >> >> Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkobject.c: line 1070 >> (gtk_object_get_data_by_id): assertion `GTK_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed. >> >> Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkobject.c: line 1172 (gtk_object_unref): >> assertion `GTK_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed. >> >> Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkobject.c: line 1172 (gtk_object_unref): >> assertion `GTK_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed. >> >> Gtk-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to `GtkObject' >> >> Gtk-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to `GtkObject' >> >> Gtk-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to `GtkObject' >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jason >> > >
