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Awesome examples. It would be nice to get support for formats besides WAV, but that's future work. Is MP3 decoding proprietary, or just encoding?
by fruchtose 14y ago
Awesome examples. It would be nice to get support for formats besides WAV, but that's future work. Is MP3 decoding proprietary, or just encoding?
- jamescun 14y agoAfaik both encoding and decoding require a license. However there is a mutual agreement from patent holders that there is no license required for FOSS decoders, allowing things like VLC to function without a license.
- md224 14y agohttp://jsmad.org http://jsmad.org
- gliese1337 14y agoTo expand a bit: mp3 decoding in JavaScript has been done, and it works pretty well, but not perfectly / not on all files. I've used it and stuff derived from it with quite satisfactory results in situations where I can control all of the inputs it will be used with. Adding basic support for mp3 decoding to this could be just a matter of integrating JSMad, if that's the way they felt like going about it, but adding really robust, efficient, gonna work all the time support would require a significant investment of additional effort. I don't know what the state of the art is for mp3 encoding in JavaScript, if there is one.