playing mp3s in PA4

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 12 April 2013, Wolfgang Romey wrote:
> 
> I thought you have to pay license fees for mp3 encoders and not for
> decoders and that the problem was, that mp3 is not a free format.
> 
> As Marco Martin solved the problem of mp3 indexing,  he must have somme
> mp3- files on his tablet. Is he not able to play them?

indexing works, since taglib doesn't have particular legal issues.

problem for mp3 mpeg4, h264 and so on is that  is not actually completely 
legal to ship by default (very grey area, but for stuff intended to be bundled 
to hardware there are issues even in europe)
even on desktop most linux distributions don't ship that by default, and you 
have to use 3rd party repos not affiliated to the distribution in any way to 
have fully working ffmpeg and that stuff

i would be happy if somebody 3rd party makes rpms for that available, but 
really has to be a 3rd, not really connected party :/

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Marco Martin