Hi, I hope I'm posting in the correct mailing list, if not please tell me which one would be better for my request.
I've noticed yesterday that the already available FAAC package from the Fink project has been moved to the Sounds section now instead of the wrong Graphics section, so thank you for that! This was one of the issues I mailed about a month ago to the package maintainer Justin F. Hallett aka TheSin, so I guess he has received my mail, but maybe didn't have the time to answer. Or someone else from the Fink team saw my replies in the Package Requests tracker on SourceForge.net (to Ben Waggoner's questions) perhaps: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/ ?group_id=17203&atid=371315&func=detail&aid=618857 Anyhow, at the moment the FAAC package only includes the decoder called FAAD2. It is also a part of the general SourceForge project FAAC which got his name from the encoder FAAC (Freeware Advanced Audio Coder, LGPL). So the encoder is still missing in the Fink package, but would probably be appreciated by the Mac OS X community that uses Fink packages. As far as I know, FAAC v1.24 should compile flawlessly on this OS, because there have been related fixes in the past to ensure this. If not, you could always contact the developers in the faac-dev mailing list or on the web forum at http://www.audiocoding.com/ which is the homepage for FAAC and FAAD2. The version numbering of the available FAAD2 decoder in Fink seems a little bit strange to me, but this may be caused by the outdated FAAD decoder (LGPL) that was deprecated a long time ago and replaced by FAAD2 (GPL). The release version of FAAD2 is 2.0 now, and the beta version is 2.1 and being constantly updated with the latest developments, e.g. HE AAC and Parametric Stereo. I mentioned some advantages of FAAC vs. Apple's AAC codec in the Package Request tracker, but if you need more information about it to change the Fink package information, you could have a look at the Wiki page on Audiocoding.com or simply ask me, because I wrote that page (needs to be updated to v1.24 soon): http://www.audiocoding.com/wiki/index.php?page=FAAC Thanks for providing so many open source projects for Mac OS X! ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
