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Fedora Linux to Support MP3 Encoding

posted by martyb on Tuesday May 09 2017, @03:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the sounds-rather-LAME-to-me dept.

butthurt writes:

Fedora Magazine reports:

[...] a few days ago Red Hat Legal provided the permission to ship MP3 encoding in Fedora. [...] it will soon be possible to convert physical media or other formats to MP3 in Fedora without 3rd party repositories.

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday May 09 2017, @05:31AM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday May 09 2017, @05:31AM (#506763)

    Yeah, and x264/MPEG-4 itself reduces bitrates a huge amount over the ancient MPEG-2 that DVDs use, probably quite a bit more than the x264-to-x265 improvement.

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