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

[Kostya]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:12:55PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 03:08:59PM -0400, Alex Converse wrote:
[...]
> > >>
> > >> Let's not forget that lame started out as a dist10 patchset.
> > >
> > > That was before my time, what is dist10?
> 
> So what is dist10?  Somebody please enlighten me...
 
In the times of my childhood that was the only MPEG Audio encoder and
decoder available in source form - those were reference sources from ISO
IIRC. For MP3 you got either it or Fraungofer encoder (demo version
encoded only 30 seconds of sound) or some shitty encoders based on
dist10 sources.