[Libav-user] decoding mp3

Michael Winter mwinter at wolfram.com
Wed Nov 27 19:11:12 CET 2013


On Nov 25, 2013, at 3:30 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:

> Michael Winter <mwinter at ...> writes:
> 
>> But the license compliance checklist looks strictly 
>> detailed for lgpl.
>> 
>> For example, lame is lgpl except for the mpeg123 
>> libs they use for decoding which is gpl.
> 
> You win;-))
> 
> If I understand correctly, lame contains GPL code 
> by default without telling...
> 
> Since FFmpeg does not (never) use that code, you 
> can simply disable it when compiling lame to 
> be on the safe side:
> 
> $ configure --disable-decoder
> 
> Allow me to repeat that this does not change the 
> abilities of your resulting FFmpeg binary.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> (Please do not top-post here.)
> 
> Carl Eugen
> 
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I guess I did not read this as fully as I should of. If I have to run:

> $ configure --disable-decoder

Then you are using LAME or MAD for decoding. Is that correct?

Thanks,

Mike





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