QT->MP3?

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

MP3 is *NOT* a free audio format.  Software which produces MP3 files 
would be subject to additional royalty payments.  It is highly unlikely 
that Rev could add support for this, since it is likely that each copy 
of each standalone would need to pay royalties.

My guess is that this is why Apple is dropping support for MP3 (have 
not looked into this though, so I don't know for sure).

Can your client not change the requirements to use a different (free) 
audio format?  And why not just use QuickTime audio files?

You might also look at the Ogg Vorbis codec, or at least at the web 
site (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html).

Info on MP3 royalties are at mp3licensing.com; MP3 is covered by a 
patent and cannot be supported by a software application (for encoding 
or decoding) without a license.


On Nov 30, 2004, at 6:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Ken Norris wrote:
>>> Scott Rossi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Recently, Richard Gaskin  wrote:
>>>>> Anyone have an external to convert QT audio files to MP3?
>>>>
>>>> Do you have to do this within Rev or are you looking to simply 
>>>> convert files
>>>> (thus something like iTunes)?
>>>
>>> Gotta be Rev.  It's for a client.
>> A Mac-platform client? If so, you might be able to access the QT 
>> codec and rewrite the files as MP4 (AFAIK, QT reads but won't write 
>> MP3 anymore) then delete the old file. But I'd bet you couldn't do it 
>> in Windows.
>
> My clients need to support XP as well (Linux would a nice-to-have), so 
> a Mac-only solution is out.  Too bad Apple pulled support for the 
> world's most popular audio format from the QT API.
>
> I wonder if it's worth proposing that MP3 conversion be added to the 
> engine.  Anyone else need that sort of thing?
>
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
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