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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:21:59AM +0300, Kostya wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:03:10PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:05:41PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> [...]
> > > > Libfaac has two incompatible licenses.
> > > 
> > > Yes, that's why it is crap and needs to be replaced.  The 3GPP AAC
> > > encoder has just one license: prohibitively nonfree.  There is really
> > > nothing more to say about it...
> > 
> > i agree, anyway, the idea that free software starts out of propriatary
> > code in which one function after the other is rewritten to make it "free"
> > really isnt all that impresive. If i may make some analogy, it feels like
> > 
> > someone building a car by taking one of a competitor and replacing one part
> > after the other by his own vs. an engeneer designing a car from scratch
> > optimizing each part as well as the overal design and testing prototypes
> > to make sure its all perfect.
> > 
> > Another thing this reminds me are the leica cameras, they where also copied
> > by pretty much everyone from europe over russia to japan, still, tell me
> > a single one of them who managed to build an equal let alone better camera
> > that way?
> 
> I happen to live in a city where USSR Leika clones (aka FED) were
> produced. The funny situation here is that copying usually produced
> better results than design from scratch.

I dont own a FED, but what ive heard is things like that they where
manufactored to the precission of cement mixers ;)


> 
> But here's a counterexample - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-2_rocket

Indeed i didnt know that, though USSR own rocket designs surpassed copies
and non copies. I mean thinking of soyuz for example ...

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