playing mp3s in PA4

[Wolfgang Romey]

Am Freitag, 12. April 2013, 15:15:12 schrieb 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 :/

Thank you very much clearing this up. Unfortunately most users do not value 
freedom enough (or don't know about the issue of free software) so they 
expect, that they can play mp3s. Maybe a solution comes up, after Vivaldi is 
shipped in the hopefull near future. 
I will help me by transforming mp3s into oggs on my laptop and syncing the 
oggs to my wetab via onwcloud, which is working realy well.

Wolfgang

BTW: I now use 10 activities on my wetab and it is working very well.