playing mp3s in PA4

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 12.04.2013 15:15, Marco Martin wrote:
> 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 :/

Another solution could be to partner with Fluendo to offer users to buy 
codecs from them as Add-Ons. This is how some desktop distros tackle the 
problem.