[vorbis] AC-3 Decoding

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, David Balazic wrote:

> Jared (jared at celab21.students.csee.uq.edu.au) wrote :
> 
> > Saw an article today on /. which reports that Dolby are insisting the
> > NETBSD dudes remove the ac3dec package from their site. Someone suggested
> > that we need an open source solution.
> 
> ac3dec is already open ( GPL ).

Yes.  This is a patent issue, not a copyright issue.  We actually have some
(very little anymore) of their code in libao.

Don't worry, it's not the patented part.  :)
(Well, unless they patented writing to WAV files and /dev/dsp.)


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Stan Seibert

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