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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 07:00:16PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 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. ;)

IMO the argument for including faad is that the source package is
usually broken and has idiotic dependencies (like libsoundfile or
whatever). Same situation as dvdread/dvdcss when they were first
imported to mplayer cvs. On the other hand, lame and vorbis libs are
generally non-broken. Also lame is only needed for mencoder, which
most people don't seem to use.

Rich