Re: [Audacity-devel] New QuickTime importer

[Richard A. <ri...@au...>]

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 08:01 -0500, Leland wrote:
> > The best thing may be to add an
> > importer plug-in interface and create something like the VST enabler.
> > 
> I actually already have this, with an sample plugin that uses the ffmpeg
> library.  (With the intention of supplying WMA support)  I just never
> committed it.  Should I?

I think it would be a good idea. We might even want to port the libmad
importer to use it, so that the patent-paranoid Linux distributions in
the USA can ship without it and then users can download the libmad
plugin to get MP3 import to work without rebuilding audacity.

Richard