[MPlayer-users] AAC [was something about subs]

[gabor]

On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 23:20, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi!
> 
> > From: Moritz Bunkus <moritz at bunkus.org>
> > Possible? Not at the moment because ogmtools don't support it. Is there
> > an OpenSource encoder for AAC? Or at least one that I can get free
> 
> 	Yes, there is an encoder.    'faac' comes bundled with the MPEG4IP
> 	project:
> 
> 		http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 	That includes 'xvid' for the video encoding, a streaming server,
> 	AAC encoder, player, and quite a few other projects integrated 
> 	together.
> 
> 	For just the audio portion you can visit:
> 
> 		http://faac.sourceforge.net/download.php
> 
> 	where you can get the decoder (faad) and encoder (faac).


what's the legal status of aac?
are parts of the encoding/decoding algo copyrighted as for mp3?
or it's more as vorbis?

thx,
gabor
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