erland wrote: > My guess is that it would be similar to a Raspberry Pi, basically you > would just have to install the board in a case, no soldering should be > needed unless I'm missing something. > > > Agreed, would be good to get some information from someone who knows > this stuff, I just read a bit yesterday and found the license prices > here: > http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/hardware.html > (It's the minimum $15 000/year fee which is the issue) > > I suspect you can't have it pre-installed on an image, I'm not sure if a > way around it would to download and install it automatically during > installation. Most application I've seen seem to instruct users to > download and install mp3 decoders manually completely separate from the > application, so that would definitely be an option, but it would make > the installation process a bit more complex.
Cant it just be a run once script that installs LAME or MAD or (insert decoder ) at the first convenient possibility . The it is at least technically the end user who is doing it . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss