[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2] news: add a news entry for the AAC encoder experimental flag removal

[Rostislav Pehlivanov]

Feel free to edit the part about the GSoC or anything you think isn't
enough. I know why it's important, so if you think it's not enough just add
whatever you think sounds right. After all I'm not the best person to write
about myself, I'm too biased :)

On 5 December 2015 at 20:49, Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker at gmail.com>
> ---
>  src/index | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/src/index b/src/index
> index d1d4a58..ea2ca7e 100644
> --- a/src/index
> +++ b/src/index
> @@ -37,6 +37,32 @@
>      News
>    </h1>
>
> +  <a id="aac_encoder_stable"></a><h3>The native FFmpeg encoder is now
> stable!</h3>
> +  <p>
> +    After seven years the native FFmpeg AAC encoder has had its
> experimental flag
> +    removed and declared as ready for general use. The encoder is
> transparent
> +    at 128kbps for most samples tested with artifacts only appearing in
> extreme
> +    cases. Subjective quality tests put the encoder to be of equal or
> greater
> +    quality than most of the other encoders available to the public.
> +  </p>
> +  <p>
> +    Licensing has always been an issue with encoding AAC audio as most of
> the
> +    encoders have had a license making FFmpeg unredistributable if
> compiled with
> +    support for them. The fact that there now exists a fully open and
> truly
> +    free AAC encoder integrated directly within the project means a lot
> to those
> +    who wish to use accepted and widespread standards.
> +  </p>
> +  <p>
> +    The majority of the work done to bring the encoder up to quality was
> started
> +    duing this year's GSoC by developer Claudio Freire and Rostislav
> Pehlivanov.
> +    Both continued to work on the encoder with the latter joining as a
> developer
> +    and mainainer, working on other parts of the project as well. Also,
> thanks
> +    to <a href="http://d.hatena.ne.jp/kamedo2/">Kamedo2</a> who does
> comparisons
> +    and tests, the original authors and all past and current contributors
> to the
> +    encoder. Users are suggested and encouraged to use the encoder and
> provide
> +    feedback or breakage reports through our <a href="
> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/">bug tracker</a>.
> +  </p>
> +
>    <a id="thanks_sponsor_0001"></a><h3>Telepoint & MediaHub are now
> supporting our project</h3>
>    <p>
>      A big thank you note goes to our newest supporters: MediaHub and
> Telepoint.
> --
> 2.6.2
>
>