Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > About the only choice these days is bladeenc. Due to > patent issues it is probably NOT available in a .deb, > at least not on the debian ftp site. However you can > get it from Tord's home page (I don't recall the url, > but you can find it on freshmeat or linuxberg). It is > now licensed under the lgpl so the source is > available. Bladeenc is a high quality encoder that > excels at 128, 256, and 320bps encoding, AND is fast too!
I wondered about this. Since it's a patent issue and most other countries don't accept software patents, why can't mp3 encoders be included in non-US? Thanks, Stuart.