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From: "Michael Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 3 August 2006 13:02:24 BDT To: "Nicholas J Humfrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: libshout: Streaming MPEG Audio Layer 2 On 8/3/06, Nicholas J Humfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I can certainly understand your philosophy - I am very opposed to Software Patents and am very keen to get free codecs out into the real world. However I can't see it as a very good reason to not apply one-line bug fixes. Surely Free-formats such as Ogg Vorbis should be judged on their own merits, not based on the fact that developers refuse to support other formats? Seems to break the whole spirit of Open Source by preventing me from contributing. You also suggest that this is an (unofficial) Xiph policy.Oh, I wasn't trying to suggest that ignoring your patch was any sort of official or unofficial policy - just that _I_ have no interest whatsoever in helping you use non-free codecs, and perhaps that's why nobody else has responded to you. I'm not rejecting the principle of the patch, I'm just personally not interested in spending any time reviewing it, or applying/committing it. If you get someone else to do so, fine.MP2 is certainly not new! The reason I am trying to use it with libshout is because DVB (and DAB) transmits nearly all of its audio as MP2, and I am simply relaying it on to networks.Unfortunately true. Perhaps you should transcode to vorbis, and relay that instead. Mike
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