Re: MP3 Support
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:30:52 -0500
Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:12:53AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote:
> > On Mon February 19 2007 01:51, Joe Hart wrote:
> >
> > > I'll still be putting the Christian's repo in my sources list, but I
> > > thought that MP3 was one of the "questionable" formats that goes against
> > > the DFSG. Perhaps I am wrong.
> > >
> > > In any event, I was pleasantly surprised.
> >
> > I find that mp3 and ogg are supported by almost any media player, even
> > mp3blaster on the console. Lame isn't in debian though (the mp3 encoder).
> > Even wma is supported by xine now and I'm sure others too.
>
> True but doesn't answer Joe's question.
>
> MP3 is a patent-encumbered technology for compression only. Players (IIRC)
> don't require a licence. Whether that's DFSG-acceptable I couldn't say.
> --
> Carl Fink nitpicking@nitpicking.com
>
I believe this is true. The file formats is what is DFSG, not the codecs (If that's what it's called for audio files, I really don't know) to play it. It isn't Debian that supports the format, but your media player. Head over to http://xmms.org/, the developers call it a "mp3 player".
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