Ubuntu ffmpeg won't do mp3

Silly question about MP3/2:

when will the relevant patents expire? (e.g. JPEG and GIF have expired IIRC)

Eric.

On 10/16/05, crimsun at fungus.sh.nu <crimsun at fungus.sh.nu> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 04:21:41PM -0400, 'Forum Post wrote:
> > Did this issue ever get resolved?  I did an apt-get install ffmpeg (and
> > lame and all the other stuff) and I still do not have mp3 encoding
> > support.. I get the same error as in the first post.
>
> ffmpeg in universe is not compiled with mp3 encoding support.
>
> Cheers,
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