[Mageia-dev] cinelerra/audiokonverter/arista (war Re: rehashing the faac issue)

Thu Nov 1 13:56:53 CET 2012

2012/11/1 PhilippeDidier <philippedidier at laposte.net>:
+> Christiaan Welvaart a écrit :
+>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, PhilippeDidier wrote:
+>>
+>>> I don't know actually how to create *.aac files or *.mp4 files with
+>>> Mageia... if you help me I will be happy...
+>>
+>> ffmpeg -i foo.mp3 -strict -2 -codec:a aac -format adts foo.aac
+>>
+>> But AFAIK this uses the ffmpeg internal aac codec which isn't very good.
+>>   -codec:a libvo_aacenc      produces garbage, no idea why
+>>
+>> About arista: someone decided to use the internal ffmpeg lib from
+>> gstreamer-ffmpeg for gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg which broke arista. Now arista
+>> must be ported to gstreamer1.0 .
+>>
+>>
+>>     Christiaan
+>>
+> So ...
+> You can understand, now, if you need to create aac or mpa or mp4 files :
+> that faac works
+> that softwares built with it work too
+> that nothing inside Mageia work (libvo_aacenc is really bad quality when
+> it doesn't produce garbages)
+> that we have been waiting since Mageia exists for an hypthetic GPL
+> alternative to faac
+> that to satisfy exclusive gpl software policy in tainted repo we are stuck
+>
+> What do you propose then ?
+
+After reading all arguments again I must confess that I changed my
+opinion: Being consequent and following our road we need a
+/tainted-free and a /tainted-nonfree branch.
+I apologise for my harsh words about the whole matter, the repeated
+discussion changed my mind.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+