Re: [Banshee-List] Slow, slow import

[Timo Dörr <timo latecrew de>]

Am 16.05.2012, 18:32 Uhr, schrieb gnomeuser gmail com  
<gnomeuser gmail com>:


> > [OFFTOPIC]: David, what is the policy for OS X and mp3  
> > playback/encoding? As
> > I said i just enabled Streamrecorder, but for mp3 encoding to work lame
> > would have to be shipped in the .app bundle. I know there a patent  
> > issues
> > when sipping mp3 en-/decoders, so i was thinking to automatically  
> > disable
> > LAME on release-builds but include it on non-release builds so that  
> > users
> > can grab their own bockbuild and create their own .app bundle with  
> > patent
> > encumbered stuff.
>
> I believe the approach is to use the GStreamer fallbacks to access
> these things from the platform on which we run. I think that is how we
> do mp3 playback legally on Mac at least, I imagine the same would
> happen for encoding. Under no circumstances should you distribute
> legally problematic builds, since we gather money for GNOME via the
> Amazon MP3 store that would be seen as profitting from patent
> violation and GNOME would be sued into the stone ages.

Yes, I was thinking of that. It is easy just to exclude the lame binary,  
then one can only encode with FLAC and ogg/vorbis. I am not sure if OS X  
has a built-in mp3 encoder, will need to dig into that first.

Greetz
Timo


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