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diff --git a/audio/mad/DESCR b/audio/mad/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..923313d6893 --- /dev/null +++ b/audio/mad/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +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 aka MP3) are fully +implemented. + +MAD does not yet support MPEG 2 multichannel audio (although it should be +backward compatible with such streams), 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) |