🚀 go-pugleaf

Brandon Long wrote:
> 
> On 10/27/98 Bernd Paysan uttered the following other thing:
> > John Miles wrote:
> > > The company I'm working with has recently been involved in the necessary
> > > patent licensing surrounding MPEG Layer 3 audio, and believe me, after
> > > that experience, the Evil Empire in Redmond seems tame by comparison.
> >
> > But we have MPEG AAC, and both the license conditions and the audio
> > files sound better. A good starting point is
> >
> > http://www.mpeg.org/pointers/aac.html
> 
> Better?  Perhaps I don't understand how bad the mp3 licensing is, but I
> was under the impression decoding was free with mp3.

[with AAC it isn't, it seems]

But there is also VQF from Yamaha, also part of MPEG 4. TwinVQ seems to
be a name related to this. Freeware seems to be available for encoding
and decoding, but that does not say anything about the licensing issues
of course.

I got pointed on day to a Fraunhofer patent applying to MPEG layer 3
audio, but that seemed easily avoidable to me, while creating
incompatible but similar results maybe: the patents speaks of 'encoding
into an equal noumber of bits' or something like that. I assume an
unequal number of bits could be made to work as well, thus effectivly
avoiding that patent. Maybe in a later stage the bits can be stuffed in
to make the stream compatible...

The competition with VFQ or TwinVQ or whatever its true name can only be
a good thing however...

Thomas