From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benno Senoner Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 09:25:04 +0000 Subject: Re: MPEG Support Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 03 Aug 1999, Kurt Wall wrote: > Hello, all, > > Does the 2.2.x sound driver yet support MPEG? Or is this being coded up in > ALSA (I've not looked at this) or video-for-linux? > > On a related question, does anyone know the current status of the > programmer's guide to the OSS API? I saw a blurb on their site > (http://www.opensound.com/pguide/index.html) that it was currently being > updated, but quite some time has passed, and I'm quite sure that it has > become dated. > > Thanks and regards, > > Kurt > -- If you are speaking about MPEG audio Layer II / Layer III ( MP2/MP3) , then you can AND SHOULD do this in userspace. there are several MP2/MP3 players arount like freeamp ( http://www.freeamp.org ) , or XMMS ( http://www.xmms.org ) if you need a great MPEG decoding audio library you can get it at http://www.xaudio.com It's one of the fastest around the planet :-) (Includes pentium optimized decoding routines) Alternatively you can use the decoding lib of mpg123. A good MP3 encoder for Linux is Bladeenc (you can find the link at http://www.mpeg.org ) hope this helps, regards, Benno.