[MeeGo-dev] MeeGo spec - for comment

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Terça-feira 07 Setembro 2010, às 12:43:57, Kollberg, Jonas escreveu:
> 3. The compliancy-requirement thus requires a software developer that needs
> MP3 functionality to licence an MP3 codec, even though it is already on
> all target systems?  This is a huge cost for a small ISV...
> 
> Any way to work around this?

I'd say that:

1) don't depend on MP3 for your application's sounds. There are free formats 
that are guaranteed to be present;

or

2) depend on MP3 and gracefully degrade the feature if the Multimedia layer 
can't play those files.

If you're confident that no device will ship without MP3 support, then almost 
no one will see the degraded functionality.

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