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

Wed Oct 31 20:20:49 CET 2012

On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, PhilippeDidier wrote:
+
+> Christiaan Welvaart a écrit :
+>> We are not going to carry faac just for convenience to build
+>> applications locally. Handbrake, another application that supposedly
+>> needs faac, is also GPL licensed so cannot be distributed linked against
+>> faac. Arista in mageia supports encoding AAC without faac.
+>> Audiokonverter appears to use mplayer for encoding so it should be able
+>> to use ffmpeg for AAC. Anything else?
+
+> You're wrong about audiokonverter :
+> it uses faac to encode into *.aac files
+
+I don't know what .aac files are (format), will check.
+
+> I proposed the two patches to have it in Mageia:
+
+Saw that in the bugreport (:
+
+> About Arista :
+> I tried Arista to create an *.aac file : it complains about missing
+> elements...
+> Could you really create *.aac files ? or did you only read what it is
+> supposed to do.
+I only tried to transcode video with aac audio track, not audio only.
+
+> Arista uses gstreamer... and, in Mageia, gstreamer-plugins in tainted
+> are built without faac, I wonder what is missing on my computer to be
+> able to do what you did !!!
+libavcodec from tainted and gstreamer-ffmpeg/gstreamer-libav
+    - this depends on libvo-aacenc
++ arista 0.9.7-4
+
+> About Cinelerra and Handbrake : everything is GPL licensed except the
+> ISO specification they need to be built ...
+> provided as bundled in hanbrake (reason why it was banned from
+> Mageia-tainted)
+> and required as BuildRequire : faac-devel for cinelerra, preventing to
+> build it for Mageia
+>
+> And Yes absolutely there's a contamination with a non-free source (how
+> the hell an ISO MPEG4 norma could be GPL ?!!!! )
+AFAIK it's code, not the standard itself
+
+
+     Christiaan
+