-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am trying to develop software and I need mp3 real time encoding features... from Windows. So I am looking for a dll alowing to record, pause and more generally manage a mp3 stream coming from line in or microphone. I have found various lame based programs which do this but no dll usable by a developer (except lame dlls of course but it does not seem obvious to build this from the lame encoding dll - although , if I have to do it, I'll just do it ). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorry I can't help directly with this because I'm faced with the same sort of problem.
But it does prompt me to comment that I do find it surprising that no-one with the knowledge to write encoders seems to have produced for example a Win32-compatible version of LAME with a COM interface, which AIUI - though I'm certainly no expert here - means one written from scratch with an ATL compatible library. Isn't this just down to the choice of coding environment?
In fact it's so surprising that there doesn't seem to be a COM-enabled LAME, given that this would enable many more less-expert developers to use the encoder easily, that I start to wonder what the reason might be? Is it concern about the MP3 licensing issue, which perhaps might assume greater proportions if a COM-enabled LAME were released with its potential for much greater usage than the current version. Are there some technical issues that I'm ignorant of? Or are the primary LAME developers perhaps a little reluctant to make things too easy for developers in the Windows world, especially the less expert ones?
John Dann
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