Bug#592726: please use libmp3lame in the mp3 plugin instead of the lame frontend

[Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>]

Package: kdemultimedia-kio-plugins
Version: 4:4.4.5-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

as it seems, the mp3 plugin in 
/usr/lib/kde4/libaudiocd_encoder_lame.so currently relies on the 
existence of the lame frontend in /usr/bin/lame instead of using the 
libmp3lame shared library which is available for ages. The problem 
with this approach is that in order for this plugin to work, the lame 
frontend must not be compiled with libsndfile support, c.f. [1] and [2].

However, losing libsndfile support for the frontend is a pity, since 
it allows for a much wider range of input formats. So instead of 
relying on a command line frontend in /usr/bin (and furthrmore relying 
on specific compile time options for it to work properly), the mp3 
plugin should e.g. dlopen() the libmp3lame library.

This way it will work when the library is installed and not if the 
library is absent - just as it is now with the frontend, but without 
the libsndfile compatiblity issue.

Cheers,
Fabian


[1] http://osdir.com/ml/kde-commits/2010-02/msg05221.html
[2] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230026