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> I'm looking for a Linux solution to watermarking audio<br><br>Are you looking at an open operating system to help you close your <br>mind? Forget the technical issues involved, I personally think you are <br>talking to the wrong community: watermarking is a means of restricting <br>distribution of visual material. <br><br>Linux is not about restricting distribution of anything.<br><br>Perhaps you should raise these questions on one of the Apple mailing <br>lists where you will meet equally paranoid minds. Bringing these issues<br>up on this list is out of line.<br><br>Regards, nick<br><br>"we have to make sure the old choice [Windows] doesn't disappear”.<br>Jim Wong, president of IT products, Acer<br><br><br><div>> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:38:29 +0000<br>> From: fons@linuxaudio.org<br>> To: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org<br>> Subject: Re: [LAU] Looking for Audio Watermarking Advice & Tools<br>> <br>> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 08:13:24AM -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:<br>> <br>> > The subject line says it all. I'm looking for a Linux solution to <br>> > watermarking audio. Thanks...<br>> <br>> I've never seen any. The amount of work to develop such a thing<br>> would depend on your exact requirements. Important parameters<br>> are:<br>> <br>> * Which operations should leave the watermark intact. If this<br>> includes lossy encoding/decoding things get more difficult.<br>> <br>> * The minium duration of a fragment that allows the mark to be<br>> detected.<br>> <br>> * How strong the 'provability' should be.<br>> <br>> * Operational requirements. For example, should it be possible<br>> to verify the mark without having the information necessary<br>> to remove it ?<br>> <br>> <br>> Ciao,<br>> <br>> -- <br>> FA<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Linux-audio-user mailing list<br>> Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org<br>> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user<br></div> </div></body>
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