[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] dynload for libfaac

[Gianluigi Tiesi]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:05:11PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Gianluigi Tiesi <mplayer at netfarm.it> wrote:
> >>> since libfaac cannot be linked in ffmpeg, I've made a patch similar
> >>> to faadbin,
> >> [..]
> >>> I've removed at all the previous way to use libfaac, since it's not
> >>> redistributable
> >>
> >> Eh... And how does this change it?
> >
> > It would enable shipping a libavcodec.so binary that runs without
> > requiring that libfaac.so is available. This allows the two libraries
> > being distributed by different distribution channels/distributors.
> 
> It wouldn't change the license of FFmpeg compiled with Faac support;
> it's still undistributable.

but with dlopen/loadlibrary you don't have any of faac code
libfaadbin implementation is not portable, ramiro's code can be added
to ffmpeg and make a common implementation


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