Eric.Howgate wrote:
>
> I saw a disturbing report tonight on the Register
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11499.html
>
> which indicates hardware manufacturers may be set
> to dump MP3 in favour of AAC.
>
> Hard to estimate what kind of a threat S3's
> adoption of AAC will pose for MP3 - but the
> quality/filesize ratio is bound to have an effect
> on people who use portable devices.
>
> Has anyone seen any info on how AAC encoders are
> to be licensed for individual/private use ? I
> imagine the format will be tightly controlled.
There is an open source encoder/decoder. I found out
about it by following a link about an AAC plugin for
XMMS on the XMMS project page. I eventually ended up
here:
http://faac.sourceforge.net/
Erik
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