Just to tell i recompiled XMMS and MP3 works fine ;)))

Fred
Carter, Shaun G wrote:
> This would indicate MP3 audio layer support was removed.  I know this and
> they had announced it, for understandable reasons.  Now explain why the
> video players have been removed (.avi, .mpg, .mpeg....), these have nothing
> to do with MP3.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 8:07 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: RH8 mpg's
> 
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> On Monday 07 October 2002 07:48 am, Carter, Shaun G wrote:
> 
>>There are NONE.  Redhat removed all video players from the distro for
>>some yet to be announced reason
> 
> 
> I wouldn't say the reason hasn't been announced. Read the release notes.
> 
> $ grep -A4 patent /usr/share/doc/redhat-release-8.0/RELEASE-NOTES-i386
> 
>      o Due to patent licensing, and conflicts between such patent licenses
>     and the licenses of application source code, MPEG-1/2 audio layer 3
>     (mp3) support has been removed from applications in Red Hat Linux such
>     as XMMS and noatun. Red Hat suggests the use of Ogg Vorbis(TM), an
>     open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free compressed audio
>     format.
> 
> - -- 
> - -Michael
> 
> pgp key:  http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
> Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3} in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/
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