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diff --git a/audio/libvorbis/pkg-descr b/audio/libvorbis/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a41d92020 --- /dev/null +++ b/audio/libvorbis/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Vorbis is a general purpose audio and music encoding format +contemporary to MPEG-4's AAC and TwinVQ, the next generation beyond +MPEG audio layer 3. Unlike the MPEG sponsored formats (and other +proprietary formats such as RealAudio G2 and Windows' flavor of the +month), the Vorbis CODEC specification belongs to the public domain. +All the technical details are published and documented, and any +software entity may make full use of the format without royalty or +patent concerns. + +This package contains: + +- libvorbis, a BSD-license software implementation of the Vorbis + specification by the Xiphophorus company. + +- libvorbisfile, a BSD-license convenience library built on Vorbis + designed to simplify common uses. + +- libvorbisenc, a BSD-license library that provides a simple, + programmatic encoding setup interface. + +WWW: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/ |