Re: [SoX-devel] AMR et al.

[Chris B. <ch...@cn...>]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Pascal Giard <evi...@gm...> wrote:

> Guys, on Debian (and Ubuntu i guess), OpenCORE's implementation of AMR
> is now included.
> I haven't done many tests, but their implementation seems compatible
> with the one by Stanislav Babec.
>
> Interestingly, it's part of main (not non-free!).
> I haven't taken the time to go into the details, but it seems to me
> that that implementation is no better (legal-wise) than the other one.
> However, it seems like it WILL replace the other one as it has
> Google's weight on its side (it's part of the Android project).
>
> Official description from Debian:
>
> This library contains an implementation of the 3GPP TS 26.073
> specification for the Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) speech codec. The
> implementation is derived from the OpenCORE framework, part of the
> Google Android project.
>
> In any case, i thought you should know.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Pascal
>

I saw that ffmpeg was switching to opencore version recently but didn't
pursue it to much since it seemed like it would have to have same legal
issues in general.

Probably sooner or later we will need to tweak configure.ac to work with
either.  Looks like API may be same but library and header file names are
different.

There are still only the older library in rpmfusion so not easy for me to do
the change on Fedora side right now.

Chris