[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] libfaad update

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Thu Jul 7 17:13:47 CEST 2005


On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:10:39AM +0200, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday 07 July 2005 09:07, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:31:44AM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > > Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > >What do you suggest?  Using external libfaad like we did in the past?
> > >
> > > yes. If I remember correctly libfaad was imported at a time when one
> > > time out of two it didn't even compile, now it's no more the case
> >
> > True, it has matured a great deal.  Nevertheless our users now expect us
> > to be able to play AAC out-of-the-box ..
> >
> 
> Well, out of the box without any devel packages installed the user wouldn't 
> notice anyway because the only usable audio out device would be ao null...

False. The only useful ao device does not use any libs because it's
based on proper unix philosophy, not windoze immitation.

> So yes, I'm for seperating it too.

Strongly against. libfaad is broken and needs local fixes. :)

Rich




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