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

[Baptiste Coudurier]

On 07/07/2009 11:20 PM, Jai Menon wrote:
> 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.

The project was started before the problem of license arised. The goal 
of the project is to have an internal aac encoder.

Should we stop having internal decoders/encoders ?

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