[Freeciv-Dev] Re: MP3 Patent Issues

[Dan Gohman <gohmandj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 07:00:04PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Dan Gohman (gohmandj@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> 
> > When discussion about sound support in freeciv was initially raised, I
> > thought people were referring to sound-effects, which would be a nice
> > addition to the clients.
> 
> These sound effects could be in MP3 format.  MP3 doesn't always mean
> "music".  It's just sound.  Thus the relevance of this discussion.

5 seconds of 8-bit mono 11025 Hz PCM data (uncompressed) is only around 50k.
This is the level of sound quality used by many games and provides decent
quality for sound-effects. Additionally, code support for this format for
all of the various output devices and platforms would be fairly simple.

Including an mp3 (or similar) player would only make sense for significantly
longer sound samples and/or music.

-Dan

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Dan Gohman
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