libaudiofile and mpeg audio

[Dietmar Maurer <dm vlsivie tuwien ac at>]

Hello,

I've just written some code to include MPEG-audio support into
libaudiofile.
It uses the MPEG-audio decoder from XingTech, which is under the GPL and

part of the freeamp project. One drawback is that the decoder is not
distributed
as a separate library until now.

One possibility is to include the MPEG-library into the audiofile
package until
the freeamp-team release it as sparate package.

Is this OK or are there any other suggestions?

Does anybody knows another (better?) mpeg decoder library (GPLed)?

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Brett A. Thomas wrote (from the freeamp team)
>On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:24:22AM +0100, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> we are writing an generic audio library (libaudiofile - see Gnome
CVS) and
>> want to include MPEG audio support. I've recently detected that the
XingTech
>> MPEG decoder is part of the freeamp-player, and that it is GPL'ed.
The only
>> problem is that the decoder-library is not distributed as a separate
>> package.
>>
>> So the question is if you are willing to supply the decoder-library
as a
>> separate package?
>
>We don't really have time to do this at this time - we're focused on
>FreeAmp as an end-user product, at the moment.  Also, for what it's
>worth, the Xing decoder in its current form is reasonably slow, and
>I'm not sure you'd want to use it for that, anyway.
>
>We will consider it, in the future, however.
>
>On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 09:30:23AM +0100, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
>> I think the decoder is fast enough to be usable. I've already
extracted
>> the decoder from freeamp, and it's possible to include it into the
>> audiofile-library. So if you don't have time to release it as
separate
>> package, we can include it temporary into our library (without making
modifications).
>>
>> Do you object to this plan. It would be really nice to have
MPEG-support in
>> the audiofile library.
>
>As long as the audiofile library is under the GPL, I've got no
>objections (and they'd be irrelevant, even if I had them).  It'd be
>nice if you mentioned us in the documentation, of course.
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