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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by jamesfinlayson on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:25PM (#43096449)
Source does, although within the last year they replaced Miles for MP3 and Rad Games Tools for Bink with tinymp3 and free WebM library.

Probably other stuff there but not sure off the top of my head.

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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by account42 on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @10:36AM (#43103201)
You see WebM in quite a few projects that have had Linux ports. Apparently Bink requires separate licenses per platform. OGG is also popular instead of MP3 but with the MP3 patens expired that isn't a legal concern anymore, just a technical superiority one.
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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code by jamesfinlayson on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @05:19PM (#43108476)
Oh, I didn't realise separate platforms required separate licenses so that makes sense.

And yeah too much effort to re-encode all the game audio most likely.

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