Re: (no subject)

Kristian G. Kvilekval wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:26, [email protected] wrote:
> 
>>Couple of questions.  One is when I close Zinf I get an error in
>>UIBrowser or something to that extent? I'm on windows ME.  I only get
>>this when I shut down though, and sometimes I get Zinf has caused an
>>error in unkown when I go to open a saved playlist.  I am using
>>version 2.2.1.  Any ideas?  Also I heard that Zinf uses winamp
>>plugins, so does this mean i can use winamp wma plugin to be able to
>>play microsoft windows media audio files.  
>>How accurate is Zinf's decoding engine?  I've heard that since it's
>>based on Xing's decoder, it's not very good at all.  How accurate is
>>it, does it pass all tests?  is it accurate?  Other than the crashing,
>>I love zinf
> 
> 
> Sorry we are in the process of restoring the win32 build we cannot
> reproduce your errors.  Zinf has it's own plugins, but some
> work was done to support winamp plugins also.   I am not sure
> what the status is.   The decoding engine is Xing,  but one developer
> is in the process of upgrading the engine to mad or libmpeg.
> 

Xing basically wrote the books for vbr mp3 encoding.  I'm fairly sure 
it's a very decent decoder and by far one of the fastest.  It's just not 
actively maintained and since none of us are DSP programmers it leaves 
us with no choice but to outsource the mp3 decoder.

You're always free to port winamp/xmms plugins to zinf. Of course i'm 
only talking about decoder/output/input.  We dont care about 
visualization plugins of any sort. It's not going into the codebase and 
it wont be recognized as part of zinf. Zinf is gpl and i'd like to keep 
all the plugins we have in it as legal as possible.  Any doubts about 
the legality of code wont be recognized.  I'm not saying the wma code is 
not legal but there exists decoders that are still accused of not being 
legal and i'd like to stay away from them.

I'd rather not spend my time working on getting xmms/winamp plugins to 
function properly under zinf and instead get zinf's plugins working 
properly and getting more of them. I was only aware of us being able to 
load winamp themes ... not plugins.






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