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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
| 0000933 | VCMI | Sound, music, videos | public | 2012-04-18 11:26 | 2012-10-06 14:17 |
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| Reporter | beegee | |
| Assigned To | beegee | |
| Priority | low | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | |
| Platform | | OS | Fedora | OS Version | |
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| Target Version | | Fixed in Version | | |
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| Summary | 0000933: No music support in Fedora |
| Description | The standard Fedora repository for installing software doesn't provide any framework/library for playing Mp3 files due to Fedora's license terms and the patents which protect the Mp3 encoding/decoding mechansim. SDL_mixer resides in that repo and thus meaning it can't be used for playing Mp3. |
| Additional Information | Proposal:
We shouldn't provide converted OGG files to players due to legal issues. Compiling sdl_mixer with Mp3 support may result in unstable VCMI execution. It's also more complicated if you got two versions of SDL_mixer and you have to specify the one with Mp3.
The easiest way I think for both players and devs is:
1. Run the bash script dirogg http://freecode.com/projects/dirogg. [^] It's simple to use and can convert one folder recursively from Mp3 to Ogg.
2. When the resource management re-organization(branch animRewrite) is finished it'll be easily possible to wrap the music loading logic so that a ogg file takes precedence over a Mp3 file.
3. A RPM installation script may then convert Mp3 to Ogg automatically when installing VCMI. (the player has nothing additionally to do) |
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