There has been some discussion about this as part of the recent 'flame war' about no-free.
In short, due to patents covering mp3 encoding debian will NOT have any mp3-encoder software in the distro. It could be put in non-us IF a site could be found in a country that thumbed it's nose at software patents. Then operators of mirrors in other countries would have to watch what they mirrored. However you can still find tarballs of lame and bladeenc on the net and install them yourself. They may be listed in tucows or freshmeat. Bladeenc is faster but not as high quality as lame (YMMV). I have been using bladeenc, but switched to lame for low bitrate encodings. >Is there no mp3-encoder in Debian ? > >dietmar ===== Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com
