[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1021370: pipewire: build with bluez5-codec-aac=enabled

[Max Nikulin]

On 13/01/2024 02:17, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:12 AM Max Nikulin wrote:
>> On Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:11:56 +0200 KeyofBlueS wrote:
>>
>> An alternative may be building a separate package for the contrib
>> repository section that contains just the aac codec plugin.
> 
> I would prefer getting fdk-aac-free into Debian main. It has been in
> the NEW queue for roughly 2 years.

<https://bugs.debian.org/981285> has been closed, so maybe it is time to
reconsider a contrib package for the AAC codec.

Pauli Virtanen pointed to commands that look promising:
<https://bugs.debian.org/1021370#37>

Fri, 9 Feb 2024 20:49:04 -0300 Fernando Toledo:
> Many headphones or speakers devices have that codec to have good quality.
> Without them they are completely unusable.

Mon, 13 May 2024 21:13:49 -0300 Fernando Toledo:
> I think I can sacrifice using nonfree instead of having my 
> headphones sound horrible.

I do not mind to have a list of BT devices friendly to free software or
devices for that it is known that due to various tricks (restricted
bitpool range, terrible equalizer settings) quality of SBC codec is
unacceptable. Just complains that some devices unusable are hardly
constructive. Unfortunately maintenance of any list would be a burden
since there is no tool that may report all codecs and their settings for
a device.