AAC encoder in ffmpeg?

[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

> Hi Reinhard et al,
>
> IIRC a native AAC encoder has been added to ffmpeg upstream recently. 
> Do we also ship this encoder (I have not found any evidence we do)?

AFAIUI, the implementation is in libavcodec/aaenc.c, but it is not built
at all (not even referenced in libavcodec/Makefile). Therefore I'm very
confident that we do not ship an working aac encoder.

I suspect that it is not in a state that ffmpeg upstream is confident
with, but when it matures they probably replace libavcodec/libfaac.c
(which is a wrapper around libfaac, that we don't ship in debian)

as soon as that happens, we'll have to adjust debian/strip.sh. That's
right.

> It should bring the same patent issues as the MPEG4 video encoders
> (the same reason we don't ship libfaac in Debian).

AFAIUI, aac is a pretty different issue to the MPEG patents. In fact,
the situation there seems to be even worse.


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