On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, PhilippeDidier wrote:
Christiaan Welvaart a écrit :
We are not going to carry faac just for convenience to build
applications locally. Handbrake, another application that supposedly
needs faac, is also GPL licensed so cannot be distributed linked against
faac. Arista in mageia supports encoding AAC without faac.
Audiokonverter appears to use mplayer for encoding so it should be able
to use ffmpeg for AAC. Anything else?
You're wrong about audiokonverter :
it uses faac to encode into *.aac files
I don't know what .aac files are (format), will check.
I proposed the two patches to have it in Mageia:
Saw that in the bugreport (:
About Arista :
I tried Arista to create an *.aac file : it complains about missing
elements...
Could you really create *.aac files ? or did you only read what it is
supposed to do.
I only tried to transcode video with aac audio track, not audio only.
Arista uses gstreamer... and, in Mageia, gstreamer-plugins in tainted
are built without faac, I wonder what is missing on my computer to be
able to do what you did !!!
libavcodec from tainted and gstreamer-ffmpeg/gstreamer-libav
- this depends on libvo-aacenc
+ arista 0.9.7-4
About Cinelerra and Handbrake : everything is GPL licensed except the
ISO specification they need to be built ...
provided as bundled in hanbrake (reason why it was banned from
Mageia-tainted)
and required as BuildRequire : faac-devel for cinelerra, preventing to
build it for Mageia
And Yes absolutely there's a contamination with a non-free source (how
the hell an ISO MPEG4 norma could be GPL ?!!!! )
AFAIK it's code, not the standard itself
Christiaan
