[oc] Re: new project...MP3 (audio) core?

[Andreas Bombe <andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de>]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 05:24:18PM +0700, Rudolf Usselmann wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Rob !
> 
> First off all welcome to the group !
> 
> Regarding the MP3 core: We had this discussion a while back, and
> I guess the discouraging thing was that the base algorithm of MP3
> is patented (or was it copyrighted ?). So even if you build a free
> hardware decoder, the person implementing it would have to pay
> royalties.

Copyright can not extend to independent implementations.  The problem is
that it has or is thought to have an enforceable patent in many western
countries.

> The alternative would be to use one of the free compression algorithms.
> I heard that some are even better than mp3. There was one that was
> developed by one of these "free" organizations, I always forget it's
> name.

Ogg Vorbis, http://www.ogg.org/ .

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