Re: MP3 'capable' [was: Meida player.]

2009-09-11 Thread halbtaxabo-om
--- On Fri, 9/11/09, arne anka wrote: > >>>  I just wanted to ask you if things are ok re MP3 patents > >>> in the following scenario > >> > >> Given that you're interested in Free software, why > >> have anything to do with mp3? If you're ripping > >> a CD, use Ogg. If what you want exists on the

Re: Meida player.

2009-09-11 Thread Yorick Moko
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:42 PM, CQIT Consulting wrote: > Thank you all of you for you help. I can now play > finally stuff on my Neo. > Thank You all. > > CQ > > I like intone a lot and use it,but just wanted to tell you there is also a canola media player, which looks very nice ___

Re: MP3 'capable' [was: Meida player.]

2009-09-11 Thread arne anka
>>> I just wanted to ask you if things are ok re MP3 patents >>> in the following scenario >> >> Given that you're interested in Free software, why >> have anything to do with mp3? If you're ripping >> a CD, use Ogg. If what you want exists on the web >> as mp3 only, ask the person who provided it

Re: MP3 'capable' [was: Meida player.]

2009-09-11 Thread arne anka
>> an answer, so don't rely on anything you see here. > > From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing_and_patent_issues well, wikipedia is neither a trustworthy source, particularly with such an issue. the source refered to ("[42]") does not cite any kind of reliable information, it only p

Re: MP3 'capable' [was: Meida player.]

2009-09-10 Thread Henner Zeller
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:54 PM, wrote: > > --- On Thu, Sep 10, rakshat hooja wrote: >> > [snip] > >> Yes I did follow the Openmoko Mp3 patent issues a long >> while back. >> >>  I just wanted to ask you if things are ok re MP3 patents >> in the following scenario > > Given that you're interest

Re: MP3 'capable' [was: Meida player.]

2009-09-10 Thread halbtaxabo-om
--- On Thu, Sep 10, rakshat hooja wrote: > [snip] > Yes I did follow the Openmoko Mp3 patent issues a long > while back. > >  I just wanted to ask you if things are ok re MP3 patents > in the following scenario Given that you're interested in Free software, why have anything to do with mp3? I

Re: MP3 'capable' [was: Meida player.]

2009-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Joachim, > "Additionally, patent holders declined to enforce license fees on free > and open source decoders, which allows many free MP3 decoders to > develop.[42] Thus, while patent fees have been an issue for companies > that attempt to use MP3, they have not meaningfully impacted users, > which

Re: MP3 'capable' [was: Meida player.]

2009-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Rakshat, I'm not a lawyer so take my advice with caution. > We sell a device with no 'working' MP3 capablities but a preinstalled Music > player. The music player can take plugins and its website visibly recommends > downloading a plugin that enables MP3. Is the seller ok in this situation re > MP

Re: MP3 'capable' [was: Meida player.]

2009-09-10 Thread Joachim Ott
2009/9/10 Al Johnson : > On Thursday 10 September 2009, rakshat hooja wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Wolfgang Spraul hardware.com>wrote: >> > Rakshat, >> > >> > > >  Actually Mplayer plays the MP3 with the user installed plugin >> > > > (libmad >> > >> > or >> > >> > > eqvalent). Intone

Re: MP3 'capable' [was: Meida player.]

2009-09-10 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 10 September 2009, rakshat hooja wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Wolfgang Spraul wrote: > > Rakshat, > > > > > > Actually Mplayer plays the MP3 with the user installed plugin > > > > (libmad > > > > or > > > > > eqvalent). Intone is just the frontend for Mplayer so no patent p

MP3 'capable' [was: Meida player.]

2009-09-10 Thread rakshat hooja
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Wolfgang Spraul wrote: > Rakshat, > > > > Actually Mplayer plays the MP3 with the user installed plugin (libmad > or > > eqvalent). Intone is just the frontend for Mplayer so no patent probs > with > > it > > Yes but we have to be careful that MP3 doesn't 'sneak in

Re: Meida player.

2009-09-10 Thread CQIT Consulting
Thank you all of you for you help. I can now play finally stuff on my Neo. Thank You  all. CQ - Original Message - From: Wolfgang Spraul Date: Monday, September 7, 2009 7:50 pm Subject: Re: Meida player. To: Support for Openmoko Device Owners > Rakshat, > > > >  A

Re: Meida player.

2009-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Rakshat, > > Actually Mplayer plays the MP3 with the user installed plugin (libmad or > eqvalent). Intone is just the frontend for Mplayer so no patent probs with > it Yes but we have to be careful that MP3 doesn't 'sneak in' somewhere. The moment anybody is selling a FreeRunner 'capable' of pla

Re: Meida player.

2009-09-07 Thread Paul
I find that I get unstable performance sometimes related to access to the sd card (I'm not sure if its because I formated it to ext3). Sometimes, the card becomes unusable until a reboot. Recently, as I mentioned before in another email, the rules,yaml file was updated (from a opkg update, not fr

Re: Meida player.

2009-09-07 Thread rakshat hooja
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Wolfgang Spraul wrote: > CQIT, > > > Intone I don't have. But thanks for the advice I will try. Does it play > only ogg or also mp3? > > Also curious about m...@intone, I hope it does not play MP3. Until all > patents have safely expired I would not want to touch MP

Re: Meida player.

2009-09-07 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/9/7 CQIT Consulting : > Went from lite to full with manual instructions. > Intone I don't have. But thanks for the advice I will try. Does it play only > ogg or also mp3? sometimes probably half of my albums won't import because of hangs on certain files i'm also having major issues with pl

Re: Meida player.

2009-09-07 Thread Sean Chadwell
g wrote: > > Went from lite to full with manual instructions. > > Intone I don't have. But thanks for the advice I will try. Does it play > only ogg or also mp3? > > > > Thanks !! > > > > > > - Original Message ----- > > From: rakshat

Re: Meida player.

2009-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
nday, September 7, 2009 12:11 am > Subject: Re: Meida player. > To: Support for Openmoko Device Owners > > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:08 PM, CQIT Consulting > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I was wondering if you have an advice about insta

Re: Meida player.

2009-09-07 Thread rakshat hooja
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:56 PM, CQIT Consulting wrote: > Went from lite to full with manual instructions. > Intone I don't have. But thanks for the advice I will try. Does it play > only ogg or also mp3? > > Thanks !! > > > > ok This full image from 22 aug works great for me http://build.shr-p

Re: Meida player.

2009-09-07 Thread CQIT Consulting
Went from lite to full with manual instructions. Intone I don't have. But thanks for the advice I will try. Does it play only ogg or also mp3? Thanks !! - Original Message - From: rakshat hooja Date: Monday, September 7, 2009 12:11 am Subject: Re: Meida player. To: Suppor

Re: Meida player.

2009-09-07 Thread rakshat hooja
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:08 PM, CQIT Consulting wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if you have an advice about installing a good media player > (mp3 and/or ogg) on SHR (unstable). > > Thanks > > Cesare Quarinto > > > Intone (should pull in the mplayer itself) Its in the repository. Are you using

Meida player.

2009-09-06 Thread CQIT Consulting
Hi, I was wondering if you have an advice about installing a good media player (mp3 and/or ogg) on SHR (unstable). Thanks Cesare Quarinto ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support