Bug#448068: closed by Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de> (Re: Bug#448068: moc-ffmpeg-plugin: "Format not supported" for aac stream)

[Andrei Popescu]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:17:05PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
 
> The use of libfaad requires a patent license. It can't be
> distributed in Debian's distribution. There is a free GPLed version
> "freeware Advanced Audio Decoder":
> 
> FAAD2 is the fastest ISO AAC audio decoder available. FAAD2
> correctly decodes all MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 MAIN, LOW, LTP, LD and ER
> object type AAC files.
> http://www.audiocoding.com/faad2.html
> 
> This one isn't supported from moc itself. Damian, could you please
> investigate? I've tried to build against libfaad2 but moc didn't
> accept it.
 
IIUC, moc can't play aac because of patent issues. Then please change 
the description of moc-ffmpeg-plugin to reflect this.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
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