[Pkg-icecast-devel] Bug#358434: Fwd: libshout: Streaming MPEG Audio Layer 2

[Nicholas J Humfrey]

I think this might be the answer... nobody else I emailed even  
bothered to reply.

nick.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Michael Smith" <msmith at xiph.org>
> Date: 3 August 2006 13:02:24 BDT
> To: "Nicholas J Humfrey" <njh at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: libshout: Streaming MPEG Audio Layer 2
>
> On 8/3/06, Nicholas J Humfrey <njh at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I can certainly understand your philosophy - I am very opposed to
>> Software Patents and am very keen to get free codecs out into the
>> real world. However I can't see it as a very good reason to not apply
>> one-line bug fixes. Surely Free-formats such as Ogg Vorbis should be
>> judged on their own merits, not based on the fact that developers
>> refuse to support other formats? Seems to break the whole spirit of
>> Open Source by preventing me from contributing. You also suggest that
>> this is an (unofficial) Xiph policy.
>
> Oh, I wasn't trying to suggest that ignoring your patch was any sort
> of official or unofficial policy - just that _I_ have no interest
> whatsoever in helping you use non-free codecs, and perhaps that's why
> nobody else has responded to you.
>
> I'm not rejecting the principle of the patch, I'm just personally not
> interested in spending any time reviewing it, or applying/committing
> it. If you get someone else to do so, fine.
>
>
>>
>> MP2 is certainly not new! The reason I am trying to use it with
>> libshout is because DVB (and DAB) transmits nearly all of its audio
>> as MP2, and I am simply relaying it on to networks.
>
> Unfortunately true. Perhaps you should transcode to vorbis, and relay
> that instead.
>
> Mike

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