[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] faad2 version 2.5 support

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 06 October 2007 at 02:01, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 2007/10/6, Frank Liu <gfrankliu at gmail.com>:
> [...]
> >
> > If I apply my patch and rebuild ffmpeg, same command runs without any errors.
> >
> > Thoughts?

Your FAAD2 has been patched not to include backward compatibility APIs.

> I think your patch would break building of the older FAAD (FAAC?) versions.

Indeed.

> Some people still prefer the old version because license changes by
> Nero rendered the library GPL incompatible.

AFAIK they're not as GPL incompatible as we thought, as long as we don't use
FAAD code in something else than AAC decoder. See this bugzilla report for
more information: http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1482

Regards,
R.

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