Bug#703732: faad fails to gaplessly decode itunes, nero, fraunhofer aac

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am Montag, den 25.03.2013, 12:31 +0000 schrieb Julian Hughes:
> Meanwhile the "official" faad binary itself surely would not be 
> one of the frontends which doesn't use libfaad properly?

I wouldn't say that the libfaad library nor its official frontend are
flawless. It is just that all patches addressing gapless playback that I
found so far touched frontend code and not the library itself.

> I'm still concluding that faad/libfaad can only correctly decode
> gapless files if they are produced by faac, which doesn't seem to match
> the package description of

The problem with your tests is that you can only exchange frontend *and*
library for comparison. Could you try again with different fontends for
the exact same libfaad2 again, e.g. mplayer, mplayer2, vlc, totem, xine?

> I hope I haven't completely misunderstood this, and I appreciate that
> any fix, if even possible, might not be very likely but thank you for
> taking the trouble to look into it

I have yet to see any patch against libfaad that explicitely addresses
gapless playback and I'd enjoy to apply it.

 - Fabian