On 2016/03/20 00:36, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: > Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> writes: > > > On 2016/03/17 21:04, Michael McConville wrote: > >> It's only got fixing tweaks since it was imported in 1998, nothing > >> depends on it, and (this is a good red flag for deletion candidates) it > >> still has patches removing gets(3). The source files in the tarball are > >> timestamped 1993-94 and the opening paragraph of the README is: > >> > >> > I found this in a zip file, the test suite missing, as well as the > >> > Makefile. > >> > >> What seems to be the HOMEPAGE of the project (there isn't one in the > >> Makefile) declares it "compatible with IRIX 5.3 and IRIX 6.1", and > >> points users to IRIS dmedia tools if they want a "better quality > >> implementation": > >> > >> http://structbio.vanderbilt.edu/comp/soft/freeware/mpegaudio.html > >> > >> I'm assuming no one is still using it? > >> > > > > Is there anything else that can encode to MPEG layer 1 in the tree? > > The gets->fgets patches are broken. I doubt anyone would actually use > it after seeing the erratic interactive behavior; getting it to actually > convert a wav file to mp1 took me three attempts. > > From my point of view it can just go.
Hmm this does ring some bells from when I used it to generate an mp1 to test decoding for an update to another program... In terms of actual usage Layer 1 was mainly used for DCC (VCDs used layer 2 which is supported by more programs) so I don't see much use for this other than creating test files for decoders, and now I found http://mpgedit.org/mpgedit/mpgedit/testdata/mpegdata.html which has the ISO test files so this port is probably no longer needed.
