There will of course be an mpeg-1 layer 2 96Kb/s bitstream as part of the
mpeg-1 multicast source. royalties have already been payed by the
hardware encoder vendor.
playback using a client that liscenses the the fraunhoffer IP such as mtv
(on unix's), windows media-player, or quicktime 5 is left to the
discretion of the viewer.
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, James P. Salsman wrote:
Given that audio recording and production is less expensive than
video production, and audio takes less bandwidth, how about audio
recordings as an alternative?
Whether we use GSM 06.10 or MP3 format, it makes economic sense.
Lincoln D. Stein suggests MP3:
http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/feature/tpj0503-0002.html
http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3
http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~hipp/mpg123.html
Since this would be for noncommercial use for the IETF, no patent
licensing would be required. Commercial concerns would be free
to pay non-profit organizations to convert the format for them.
Cheers,
James
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