MP3 authoring in squeak?
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Mon Dec 9 15:17:24 UTC 2002
Yay! Sounds terrific.
Keep us posted.
Cheers,
Alan
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At 9:53 AM -0500 12/9/02, Jason Dufair wrote:
>I'm currently actively working on Ogg Vorbis support for squeak.
>I've gotten the vorbis libraries to compile under the Win32 Squeak
>compile environment and now just need to write some slang to get the
>two to talk (I'm going the plugin route rather than the FFI route).
>I'm planning only on decode support for starters (since that's all I
>need for my jukebox anyway), but it wouldn't be difficult to add
>encoding support as well. I'll let everyone know when I have
>anything that's even alpha quality.
>
>John Hinsley wrote:
>
>>On Saturday 07 December 2002 9:25 am, Karl Ramberg wrote:
>>
>>>Derek Brans wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Has anyone seen any code for authoring mp3's?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>I think John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>
>>>did some work on this. But the lisencing issue
>>>was a bit complicated.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Ogg Vorbis would be in most respects a better way to attack the
>>issue (the external libraries are available for just about every
>>platform) -- I'm convinced that it's both technically and audibly
>>superior -- but raises (as the "GPL is evil" lobby will point out)
>>other potential licencing issues.
>>And, of course, the dunderheads who produce discrete Mp3 players
>>all seem hell bent on changing down a blind alley........
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>John
>>
>
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>Jason Dufair - jase at dufair.org
>http://www.dufair.org/
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