2012/10/29 Christiaan Welvaart <[email protected]>: > > The problem is the following: > > 1. faac cannot go into main (see 2 & 3) > 2. faac cannot go into tainted (it is not free software) > 3. faac cannot go into nonfree (patented in some countries) > > so we only have 2 options: > A. ban faac and use the AAC encoder(s) we already have in mageia > or another one that can go into tainted > B. add a special repository for faac
Looking at the history if the discussion (and especially this thread), it seems that a third option was clearly stated and approved by a few contributors: C. Change the definition of the Tainted repository to open it to non-free software. > > I prefer option A and I patched a gstreamer based video encoding app to use > vo-aacenc instead of faac a while ago. > > > Christiaan Regards, Rémi
