[Freeciv-Dev] Re: MP3 Patent Issues

["Sam BC" <sambc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Modules are a perfectly good idea. They could just as easily be one of the
formats supported by plugins. I still say go for plugins, people can write
whatever plugins they like when there is an API done...


SamBC

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 02 July 2000 18:44
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> Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: MP3 Patent Issues
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> At 02.07.2000 00:27 +0100, Sam BC wrote:
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Daniel Burrows
> > > immediate future it seems better to use WAV or MP3 (I prefer WAV
> > > because of
> > > patent problems, but..)
> >
> >Will people not believe that the audio format itself is not
> under any patent
> >problem, only encoding algorithms?????
>
> Since MP3's and OGG seams to be quite troublesome in different ways, why
> not go with modules instead? (not in programming terms but in music terms
> like screamtracker modules, fasttracker modules etc. (sm3, xm, mod, it,
> etc.))... They're quite small and perfect for ambient repeptivite
> background music since they can repeate the same sequences with small
> changes without any noticeable increase in size?
> And a well made mod won't sound much worse than a mp3 or ogg (? haven't
> heard them, but they can't be that much different from an mp3)
> why not give
> it a shot... and as far as I can recall there are opensource players
> available just waiting to get ripped the code out of... =)
>
>
> --
> Andreas D. Landmark
> andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - UIN:6632808
> "I hesitate to articulate for fear of deviating from the true path of
> rectitude."
> Meaning:  "I don't know."
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