[Freeciv-Dev] Re: sound development
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On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 09:01:05PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 07:56:16PM +0200, rutger@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 11:07:47PM +0300, Vasil Mantarov wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there a possibility of including mp3s as files for ambient music
> > > for the different fractions?
> >
> > You have GPL'd mp3s for FreeCiv?
> >
> > What would be the advantage over something like
> > mpg123 ambient_music_for_my_fraction.mp3 & ./civ &
>
> mp3 format is patently-problematic.
>
> If anyone were interested :
>
> There is ongoing developement of *patent-free* compresed music format
> similar to mp3 called ogg.
>
> Library is ready.
> Encoder and decoder are ready for Linux,
> in various state of porting to other OSes.
> Plugins to all popular player are being developed,
> and are in various state of maturity.
>
> Licensing for library is LGPL,
> for rest GPL.
> Developement is open.
>
> Compresion is usually 10% better than mp3's.
> There are minor quality issues (being fixed every week),
> but not visible for most of music.
> Biggest problem is 2x-5x bigger CPU utility when decoding,
> but it is probably only due to lack of optimalizations in
> this state of project.
>
> URL is http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
What's so problematic in using mpg123 decoding libs?
And there are gpl'd mp3 encoders like bladeenc, so what's really
the problem?
For that matter, I find other sound effects much more important
than music (usually people prefer listening to the music they
like to game music).
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- [Freeciv-Dev] sound development, Vasil Mantarov, 2000/06/16
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: sound development, rutger, 2000/06/18
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: sound development, Tomasz Wegrzanowski, 2000/06/18
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: sound development,
Tuomas Airaksinen <=
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: sound development, Dan Sugalski, 2000/06/23
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: sound development, Sam BC, 2000/06/25
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: sound development, Tuomas Airaksinen, 2000/06/25
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: sound development, Tomasz Wegrzanowski, 2000/06/25
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: sound development, Tuomas Airaksinen, 2000/06/29
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: sound development, Tomasz Wegrzanowski, 2000/06/29
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: sound development, Dan Sugalski, 2000/06/26
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: sound development, Jarda Benkovsky, 2000/06/26
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- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: sound development, Jarda Benkovsky, 2000/06/29
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