[Openal] MP3-Player and License

[Artem Baguinski]

On 26/05/06, Tyler Olsen <roots at allacrost.org> wrote:
> http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/
>
> Please read through that site, it has all of the answers to the
> questions you've been asking so far about licensing/royalties. Yes, you
> will have to pay royalties if you write and include your own MP3 decoder
> (a hell of a lot more too).
>
>
> 2. I'm positive that the file format it is out there on google
> somewhere. 4 years ago in my ASIC design class, my team and I wrote VHDL
> code to create a hardware MP3 player and we found the specs very easily.
> Find the file specifications, then write your own MP3 file decoder to
> send chunks of audio data to OpenAL buffers. Or, find the appropriate
> libraries for whatever system(s) you wish to use it on and include those
> headers.
>
> On Linux, it looks like my mp3 decoder header files are in
> /usr/include/mpeg3*.h

you do realise that people who wrote it didn't pay those royalties?

one popular decoder: http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/