Re: [Muine] m4a support? (NEVERMIND)

[Peter Johanson <latexer gentoo org>]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 05:14:10AM -0500, Matthew Good wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 10:33 +0200, Yo'av Moshe wrote:
> > I'm just wondering - RhythmBox does play m4a files, and it's GPL and
> > uses GStreamer as well. What's the difference?
> 
> The issue isn't the m4a file-format, but the license for the library
> that he was using to read the information.  There are other libraries
> for reading the m4a format that don't have the same license.
> 
> > Also, what's the difference between mp4.h to mp4ff.h?
> > I have both on my system, though I'm not sure from which packages.
> 
> The mp4.h he is using is from MPEG4IP, and mp4ff.h is from faad, though
> faad also appears to contain a file called mp4.h that is completely
> unrelated to the one from MPEG4IP.  
> 

it seems that faad *also* distributes the mpeg4ip stuff as part of their
packaging for some reason, that I can't fathom. For now, apply the patch
locally if you want m4a support, and I'll try to find time to hack up a
new version using *only* the faad2 stuff. grr.

-pete

> > Both media-plugins/gst-plugins-faad and media-libs/faad2 (the Gentoo
> > packages) are marked as GPL-2.
> 
> Yes, faad is GPL, the MPL license came from MPEG4IP.
> 
> > Anyway, thanks so much for the patch, I guess I'll wait for the new one :-)
> > Yo'av.
> 
> Actually, I don't see any reason you can't apply the patch to a local
> copy of Muine, just so long as you're not distributing the combined
> source.
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Good <muine matt-good net>
> 

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Peter Johanson
<latexer gentoo org>