On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Kevin Waterson wrote: >Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:43:07 +1100 >From: Kevin Waterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) <psyche-list.redhat.com> >Subject: xmms mp3 to ogg > >I can appreciate RedHats concern with mp3's and the use >of ogg as a default for xmms. Is there a mp3->ogg >conversion tool available? if not bundled a decent >third party script?
Not included with the distro, no. Any software which decodes MP3 streams is an mp3 decoder. Wether the output of that goes to your speakers, or to an ogg encoder, the result is the same, you're still decoding MP3, which is patented. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc.
