[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] LATM Parser & LATM/AAC Decoder

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:22:28PM +1200, Paul Kendall wrote:
> On Thursday 23 April 2009 11:42:33 pm Steven Ellis wrote:
> > Paul
> >
> > Really appreciate all your work on submitting this, and at the end of
> > the day we need to remember this isn't NZ specific
> >
> > There are a couple of key requirements in the DVB space that require
> > this support -
> >
> > First up NZ and several other countries are now starting to use HE-
> > AACv2 encapsulated in LATM as their default audio formal to save
> > bandwidth.
> >
> > Secondly we can't make do with plain AAC decoding. EyeTV for the Mac
> > currently supports AAC + LATM and sounds dreadful as they are getting
> > a 22KHz audio stream rather than a 44.1 or 48KHz stream.
> >
> > Third there are the big hacks we are currently needing to support our
> > broadcast media in tools like MythTV etc.
> >
> > Big thanks from the Open Source community in NZ to Paul for taking
> > this particular challenge on, and the best of luck.
> >
> Thanks for your support Steve.
> 
> Others have taken on my current patches and included them in their own
> builds of MythTV. I believe that handbrake also uses a version of my patch
> and XBMC is in the works as well.
> 
> That's what has prompted me to try to get them rolled in to ffmpeg. Of
> course I want to do it the right way though. So if a decoder is wrong and
> a bit stream filter is right, then bit stream filter, here we come :-)

id like to make it clear that to be accepted in ffmpeg svn all calls to
faad/faac also must be removed.

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