I'd imagine one reason Apple pulled support for MP3 from the QT API was the software patents held by Frauhoffer in several countries (including Germany and the US). From what I understand of the situation Frauhoffer are 'entitled' to (and enforce) a fee for every 'MP3 encoder' distributed (whether it be for no cost or not).
Unfortunately, the legal issues surrounding the incorporation of support for MP3 encoding/decoding in the engine are muddy at best and would probably require many hours of a patent lawyer's time to correctly determine. Therefore, in general, if you require MP3 encoding/decoding support I'd suggest using an external command-line program together with the interprocess communication commands. Warmest regards, Mark. On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 11:21, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Ken Norris wrote: > >> Scott Rossi wrote: > >> > >>> Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >>>> Anyone have an external to convert QT audio files to MP3? > >>> > >>> Do you have to do this within Rev or are you looking to simply > >>> convert files > >>> (thus something like iTunes)? > >> > >> Gotta be Rev. It's for a client. > > > > A Mac-platform client? If so, you might be able to access the QT codec > > and rewrite the files as MP4 (AFAIK, QT reads but won't write MP3 > > anymore) then delete the old file. But I'd bet you couldn't do it in > > Windows. > > My clients need to support XP as well (Linux would a nice-to-have), so a > Mac-only solution is out. Too bad Apple pulled support for the world's > most popular audio format from the QT API. > > I wonder if it's worth proposing that MP3 conversion be added to the > engine. Anyone else need that sort of thing? _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
