"How long for mp3 to end the patent? I mean is like 10 years? if so it
should be near.. "
2010 in the USA.
"in my personal opinion, as long there is Ogg, I can care less about
mp3, if someone gives me a mp3 and my system can't play it, I just
convert it to Ogg format, this brings me with one idea, whatever we do I
will support but if we decide to not include mp3 support, then we
should make a script were that users can use to convert to Ogg all their
media."
In order to do that, we would have to first decode the MP3 and encode
the output as Ogg Vorbis. For this process to work, we need an MP3
decoder. However, we can't legally ship one in some parts of the world,
due to the patent problems we're talking about right now. So, long story
short, this idea really solves nothing. If you can convert a file to
Ogg, you could just as well play the file directly. Also, a simple MP3
to Ogg converter already exists in "Universe" by the name of "mp32ogg".
You cannot legally use that program in countries that acknowledge
software idea patents.
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