Re: iOS 4.3 breaks my live Apps. AMR no longer supported!
Re: iOS 4.3 breaks my live Apps. AMR no longer supported!
- Subject: Re: iOS 4.3 breaks my live Apps. AMR no longer supported!
- From: tahome izwah <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:28:27 +0100
How much compression do you really need? Any reason why you can't use AAC?
The AMR decoder should be free, at least according to what the net
knows about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_codec#Licensing_and_patent_issues
--th
2011/3/20 White Hexagon <email@hidden>:
> Yes it's sounding more and more like a licensing issue, although I'm
> still waiting on confirmation, but the latest information suggests Apple
> are not going to reverse this decision. Crazy since I thought AMR
> decode was outside the licensing. Maybe the new Nokia/MS tie-up is
> flexing it's patent muscle...
>
> Also seems like G.726 isn't going to work for me without tripping over
> LGPL or hiring a better qualified developer. So currently my 2 Apps are
> without a solution :(
>
> Does anyone know if FFmpeg GPL build is possible with AMR support? and
> available for iOS, sounds like a real PITA to try and build manually,
> and I'm not sure I can manage to avoid any of the LGPL areas.
>
>
> On 2011-03-16 08:07, tahome izwah wrote:
>> This smells like they are running into some legal/patent issues,
>> otherwise I'm sure there would be an official statement as to why they
>> are dropping support.
>>
>
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Coreaudio-api mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden