[quake3] Mp3 support patch

Joerg Dietrich Dietrich_Joerg at t-online.de
Wed Oct 4 11:53:21 EDT 2006


 > I intend to add mp3 support to the svn codebase soon. It has worked 
flawlessly with EliteForce sound data
 > which is on the largest part mp3 based, so it is well tested. (x86, 
x86_64, ppc, Linux, MacOSX, Windows...)
 > ...
 > Protest now, or I will apply the changes in a few days.

No protest but some concerns here. MP3 is a heavily patented technology
and the patents are heavily defended. So this patch is very risky.
But as long as we do not include any of the decoding routines in the
source (not even to make compiling on Windows and Mac easier ;)
we should be safe.

Joerg




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