Subject: Re: MP3 encoding (was: CD Ripping under NetBSD/Sparc)
To: Michael Lorenz <ml@wisent.de>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/21/1998 10:27:20
On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 08:55:38AM +0200, Michael Lorenz wrote:
> which - more irony - is limited to 30 seconds encoding. the only useable encoder I
> could find was a demo from http://www.audioactive.com which is of course win32 but
> has as far as I could find out no limitations besides that is couls only create
> 128kBit mp3's, not more.The Fraunhofer Institut has declared all free mp3 encoder
> as illegal because their programmers don't have paid license fees for the encoding
> algorithm, the playing algorithm remains free, but not the encoder :-(((

There's a free example of mp3 encoder code which has no limitations, but it
doesn't support joint stereo and the sound quality could be better, too.
I think the link was on www.mpeg.org or somewhere..

  -jm