Re: [Cooker] mp3 is not free. use Ogg Vorbis.

2000-08-28 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Reinhard Katzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 04:33:01AM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Hi, > >=20 > > It is now in the state where it's useable. I included packages in > > Linux-Mandrake to encode/decode Ogg Vorbis, to convert from mp3 to Ogg > > Vorbis, and to

Re: [Cooker] mp3 is not free. use Ogg Vorbis.

2000-08-28 Thread Jan Niehusmann
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 08:40:51AM +0200, Reinhard Katzmann wrote: > All these are attached to this mail. Comments are welcome :-) Looks good. I wrote a spec file last week, too, but I think yours is more complete. One little comment: Not all of ogg vorbis is LGPL, the executables are GPL. ("Th

Re: [Cooker] mp3 is not free. use Ogg Vorbis.

2000-08-27 Thread Reinhard Katzmann
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 04:33:01AM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Hi, > > It is now in the state where it's useable. I included packages in > Linux-Mandrake to encode/decode Ogg Vorbis, to convert from mp3 to Ogg > Vorbis, and to play Ogg Vorbis from within the XMMS multimedia system. I no

Re: [Cooker] mp3 is not free. use Ogg Vorbis.

2000-08-27 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 27-Aug-00 by Guillaume Cottenceau: > . still beta software, will certainly be optimized Which is why I qualified with "at this point" :) > To me, it's not enough to tell that we can't use it. The p200 machines are > quite old now. I agree, boxes like this are not the norm. Many peo

Re: [Cooker] mp3 is not free. use Ogg Vorbis.

2000-08-27 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Anton Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > From where I stand, the problem with Ogg Vorbis at this point is that it > extremely expensive cpu-wise. On a p200, playing an Ogg stream consumes > between 49 and 55% of processor cycles using ogg123 and as much as 77% with > xmms. An mp3 of t

Re: [Cooker] mp3 is not free. use Ogg Vorbis.

2000-08-27 Thread Giuseppe Ghibo'
Anton Graham wrote: > > Submitted 27-Aug-00 by Guillaume Cottenceau: > > It is now in the state where it's useable. I included packages in > > Linux-Mandrake to encode/decode Ogg Vorbis, to convert from mp3 to Ogg > > Vorbis, and to play Ogg Vorbis from within the XMMS multimedia system. > > >Fr

Re: [Cooker] mp3 is not free. use Ogg Vorbis.

2000-08-27 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 27-Aug-00 by Guillaume Cottenceau: > It is now in the state where it's useable. I included packages in > Linux-Mandrake to encode/decode Ogg Vorbis, to convert from mp3 to Ogg > Vorbis, and to play Ogg Vorbis from within the XMMS multimedia system. From where I stand, the problem with O

[Cooker] mp3 is not free. use Ogg Vorbis.

2000-08-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Hi, As you may say, mp3 is not free. For example Linux-Mandrake cannot provide an mp3 encoder since Fraunhofer would sue us and/or our clients for patent infrigement. As a results, in late 1998 a new free software project started in order to produce a patent and royalties free compressed audio f