[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] non free sounds & better backgrounds

[Caroline Ford]

There will probably be licencing issues. MP3 codec is patented I  
think. In Ubuntu MP3 support is in the restricted (ie non free)  
repository. Not allowed to ship Ubuntu with MP3 support without paying  
the rightsholder. There is a guide to enabling but it's all at your  
own risk etc.

So.. If we do it we need a fallback. Don't think SDLmixer does any of  
the codec work itself so what are its dependencies? Is it using eg  
gstreamer? Must be crossplatforn too.

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On 10 Sep 2009, at 23:09, "B. Luchen" <cheezmeister at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mixer is definitely capable of handling MP3 music; IIRC, smpeg.dll
> needs to be available, I forget exactly what goes on...I love that
> idea, David!
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Caroline Ford
> <caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I put the licencing info into TODO I think. Needs adding into  
>> AUTHORS.
>>
>> All media (graphics and sound) were from Wikimedia Commons. The  
>> backgrounds
>> are all featured pictures - the best!
>>
>> Do we have a student doing SVG? If we do I can make some SVG  
>> versions of
>> some of the graphics.
>>
>> I've also found some other sound effects such as water splashes and  
>> some
>> more sci fi type things if needed.
>>
>> Caroline
>>
>> Sent from a mobile device.
>>
>> On 10 Sep 2009, at 21:35, David Bruce <davidstuartbruce at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Caroline,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Caroline Ford
>>> <caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've put 2 possible in SVN.
>>>
>>> Great!
>>>
>>> I updated the game to use the more peaceful-sounding one for the  
>>> fish
>>> cascade game, and removed the old kmus?.wav files.
>>>
>>> So, TuxType is now 100% compliant - hooray!
>>>
>>> We should mention the licensing for the new sound files in
>>> README_SOUNDS.txt.  Where did you find them? Ideally, we should  
>>> find a
>>> couple more music files so we can have a different one for each of  
>>> the
>>> four waves.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> David
>>
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