On Tuesday, 07 June 2022 at 16:25, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Tue, Jun 7 2022 at 03:11:41 PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski > <domi...@greysector.net> wrote: > > You could say that about any software that we ship that's missing > > features. FESCo decided it's better to include an incomplete or inferior > > implementation that we can legally distribute than no implementation at > > all. I don't necessarily agree with that decision (in case of AAC), but > > they're the community-elected body empowered to make such decisions. > > Any community member can register themselves as candidate and run for a > > FESCo seat in the next election. > > What's wrong with the decision to support AAC? I can play pretty much any > MP4 video on Fedora and it works fine. I understand that theoretically some > videos might have lower audio quality, but I don't notice or care. Without > fdk-aac, almost all MP4 videos would have no audio at all. > > Do I misunderstand something?
The above is mostly correct. It's not about audio quality, but correctness. Specifically, HE-AAC audio is decoded incorrectly. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1501522#c22 for more details. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
