On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 3:35 PM, john wendel <jwendel10(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Jim wrote:
>
> I picked this up off the internet about Lame;
> /Lame/
>
> In the great history of GNU naming, LAME stands for LAME Ain't an Mp3
> Encoder. LAME is not an mp3 encoder. It is a GPL'd patch against the dist10
> ISO demonstration source. LAME is totally incapable of producing an mp3
> stream. It is incapable of even being compiled by itself. You need the ISO
> source for this software to work. The ISO demonstration source is also
> freely available, but any commercial use (including distributing free
> encoders) may require a license agreement from FhG (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft,
> Germany).
>
>
Ignore this, don't believe everything you read on the internet.
Install lame and read the man page.
Regards,
John
Do "yum info lame" for more info.
~af