[gst-devel] mp3 decoder

[Michael Smith]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Gnanasekar <sk.gnanasekar at gdatech.co.in> wrote:
>> Thats the requirement for me ....we should mot use existing plug-in
>> ....thats why !
>
> So basically you don't know why.
>
> My guess is that it's a licensing issue.
>
> If that's the case then perhaps you can use Google Android's mp3
> decoder, which has Apache license, so there are no patent issues.

I assume you meant "there are no copyright issues". The apache license
does not magically make the patent issues surrounding mp3 go away.

Mike