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alsa-plugins package

  1. Bug #197957
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 197957

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Kip Warner (kip) wrote : Re: Include a libasound2-plugins-extra package for a52, jack, maemo

Hey Philipp. As I understand it, it's not a technical problem (the code has already been written and works), but a moral one. They don't want to ship it by default, like the mp3, because it is covered by patents. Nevertheless, not everyone lives in a locality where software patents have any validity, and thus at least they should have a choice.

It will be nice if we one day have multichannel hardware vorbis decoders in our home theatre systems so we don't have to be stuck with AAC/AC3/DTS.