Thank you. The MP3's were so unpredictable I just have had my students convert to .ogg. It would be nice if they can skip this step.
Paul Vincent Craven On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <le...@telus.net> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have taken the last couple of weeks to prepare a patch to SDL_mixer 1.2 > that replaces SMPEG and the MAD library with libmpg123 as the MPEG decoder. > The SDL_mixer interface to SMPEG is simply broken, and has probably been > removed from SDL_mixer 2 by now. Also, I have read criticisms of SMPEG's > ability to handle MP3 music files. The MAD library is GPL licensed, which > is incompatible with Pygame's LGPL license, or so I have been lead to > understand. The mpg123 library is LGPL, and appears to support many MP3 > flavors. > > The patch is available at > https://bitbucket.org/llindstrom/sdl_mixer-1.2-patches/overview . I > intend to use it in the prebuilt x86 and x64 Windows binaries for Pygame > 1.9.2. I will have 32-bit Pygame 1.9.2 installers out shortly for Python > 3.4, and hopefully 2.7. I will also have x64 prebuilt libraries ready for > download (They work on Wine 64, but are untested in an actual Pygame build > on an actual x64 Windows system.) > > Have fun, > > Lenard Lindstrom > >
