MP3 support in Cygwin

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Fri May 5 20:52:00 GMT 2017


On 2016-11-13 14:07, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> Please note that *only* MP3 *decoding* support is being allowed at this
> time.  So no LAME (or twoLAME), nor MPEG *video* decoding (smpeg or
> libmpeg2), etc., until further notice.

MP3 encoding support is now allowed as well, and so I have added lame 
(and mingw*-lame) to the distribution, and rebuilt my packages which can 
use it.  Other MPEG technologies still must wait until further notice.

> While we cannot comment on any specific patents, if you have any
> questions as to whether a particular package may be permitted, please
> feel free to ask here.

-- 
Yaakov



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