diff --git a/audio/libmad/pkg-descr b/audio/libmad/pkg-descr index 3bb6fa27f919..9332448e9b81 100644 --- a/audio/libmad/pkg-descr +++ b/audio/libmad/pkg-descr @@ -1,20 +1,18 @@ -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 is a high-quality MPEG audio decoder. It currently supports MPEG-1 and the +MPEG-2 extension to lower sampling frequencies, as well as the de facto MPEG 2.5 +format. All three audio layers -- Layer I, Layer II, and Layer III (i.e. 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 does not yet support MPEG-2 multichannel audio (although it should be +backward compatible with such streams) nor does it currently support AAC. MAD has the following special features: +- 24-bit PCM output +- 100% fixed-point (integer) computation +- completely new implementation based on the ISO/IEC standards +- available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) - - 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). Also included is an ID3 tag manipulation library (libid3tag). -The software is distributed as a library (libmad) and command-line -front-end (madplay). - -WWW: http://mad.sourceforge.net/ +WWW: https://www.underbit.com/products/mad/