[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/en codecs.html,1.124,1.125

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Sat Aug 30 19:00:16 CEST 2003


On Saturday, 30 August 2003, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski writes:
>  > On Saturday, 30 August 2003, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>  > > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski writes:
>  > [about faad (not) compiling under Linux]
>  > >  > Huh? But it does compile fine. My RPMs are based on that and they work fine
>  > >  > with MPlayer. Shall I correct this?
>  > > 
>  > > Which version do you use?  1.1 did not compile under Linux.  Now there
>  > > is the 2.0RC1 version available, this one does compile.  But it's a
>  > > big mess, you only need libfaad for AAC decoding and faad comes with
>  > > many more things.
>  > 
>  > http://faac.sourceforge.net/files/faad2-1.1.tar.gz
> 
> File not found.

Guess they've removed it from their main site. Try this:

http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/faac/faad2-1.1.tar.gz

And yes, it is faad2 1.1.

> Still faad is a problem for many people and it's an important codec,
> where you have to go to the trouble of installing some extra library.

Why not integrate libvorbis and libmp3lame, while you're at it? ;)
These are very important, too, and you have to install some extra
library. ;)

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