[FFmpeg-soc] AAC Encoding - Where we stand, what's left

[Jai Menon]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Baptiste
Coudurier<baptiste.coudurier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/07/2009 10:57 PM, Jai Menon wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Baptiste
>> Coudurier<baptiste.coudurier at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/07/2009 10:12 PM, Alex Converse wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> One other big thing: Improvements to faac helps many people right now.
>>>> People do (sadly) use faac for things. Improving the lavc encoder
>>>> really only helps you and me until it's fit to merge, and who knows
>>>> when that could be.
>>>
>>> That's true. On the other end, lavc encoder helps all users of lavc.
>>
>> Well, there is that libfaac wrapper so...
>
> Well, isn't the purpose of the encoder to drop it ?

Well, I was under the assumption that this was about the bigger
question of having a free aac encoder, and if Alex chooses to improve
libfaac and remove non free parts, then FFmpeg would still benefit.

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Regards,

Jai