winemp3.acm: link to system libmpg123.so

Matteo Bruni matteo.mystral at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 16:26:37 CDT 2009


2009/8/19 Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k at gmail.com>:
>> The libmpg123 library is not shipped in any rpmfusion repository for Fedora
>> 10, and possibly for other distros. This means anyone who wants mp3 support
>> would need to install libmpg123 from source. However, rpmfusion for Fedora
>> 10 has libmad, lame and twolame.
>>
>> --
>> perl -e '$x=2.3;printf("%.0f + %.0f = %.0f\n",$x,$x,$x+$x);
>>
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>
> Recently there has been a discussion on this point and in the end it
> was decided to not ship our own libmpg123 but use a packaged version.
> Several distributions including Debian and Ubuntu ship it but opensuse
> and fedora don't ship mp3 and other codecs for patenting reasons.
> Since rpmfusion seems to host packages not provided by Fedora because
> of legal purposes, I think they should add libmpg123 as well.
>
> Roderick
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>

What about using more popular libraries as libmad, lame or maybe
gstreamer to decode mp3 files? I believe someone previously said that
gstreamer is also available on Mac.



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