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diff --git a/audio/mad/pkg-descr b/audio/mad/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3bb6fa27f919 --- /dev/null +++ b/audio/mad/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +MAD is a high-quality MPEG audio decoder. It currently supports MPEG-1 +as well as the MPEG-2 extension to Lower Sampling Frequencies. All +three audio layers (Layer I, Layer II, and Layer III a.k.a. MP3) are +fully implemented. + +MAD does not yet support MPEG-2 multichannel audio (although it should +be backward compatible with such streams) or AAC, nor does it support +the so-called MPEG 2.5 format. + +MAD has the following special features: + + - 24-bit PCM output + - 100% fixed-point (integer) computation + - completely new implementation based on the ISO/IEC standards + - distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) + +The software is distributed as a library (libmad) and command-line +front-end (madplay). + +WWW: http://mad.sourceforge.net/ |