RFC: Getting HandBrake working in Debian (was: Re: How about: faac compatibility library using vo-aacenc)

2012-06-06 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jun 06 2012, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > I was once talking with gtkpod upstream about their GPL-licensed > MP4-plugin that linked against mp4v2 and was thus unredistributable. > But they have resolved this issue differently, i.e. by using > atomicparsley instead. Maybe you mixed this up... Oh, q

Re: How about: faac compatibility library using vo-aacenc

2012-06-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 06.06.2012 12:26, schrieb Rogério Brito: The last dependency is only mp4v2. Fabian, IIRC correctly, I remember you talking with the mp4v2 upstream, is that correct? Are they willing to license mp4v2 under something that is compatible with the GPL? No, sorry. I have never contacted mp4v2 upst

Re: How about: faac compatibility library using vo-aacenc

2012-06-06 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Sebastian. On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Sebastian Dröge wrote: > All this ignored, the problem is that applications can assume that they > can use e.g. the Main profile when they're linked to libfaac. Yes, that's correct. > Why not just change the software you care about to use vo-aacenc

Re: How about: faac compatibility library using vo-aacenc

2012-06-05 Thread Sebastian Dröge
On Di, 2012-06-05 at 04:23 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jun 04 2012, Sebastian Dröge wrote: > > Last time I checked vo-aacenc did not support more than 2 channels and > > Yes. > > > also only the low-complexity AAC profile while faac supported more. > > How popular are, say, hardware HE-AAC

Re: How about: faac compatibility library using vo-aacenc

2012-06-05 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jun 04 2012, Sebastian Dröge wrote: > Last time I checked vo-aacenc did not support more than 2 channels and Yes. > also only the low-complexity AAC profile while faac supported more. How popular are, say, hardware HE-AAC decoders out there? I have no idea. And I also don't know how much cove

Re: How about: faac compatibility library using vo-aacenc

2012-06-05 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. On May 27 2012, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Do you think it is possible / feasible to develop a library that provides > the libfaac API but uses vo-aacenc for the actual encoding? Yes, it is. I am (slowly) studying how the vo-aacenc library works and I expect to duplicate the example aac-

Re: How about: faac compatibility library using vo-aacenc

2012-06-04 Thread Sebastian Dröge
On Mo, 2012-06-04 at 11:11 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am 27.05.2012 23:25, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > > Please share your opinions and ideas! > > Such a bad idea that noone bothers to reply? Last time I checked vo-aacenc did not support more than 2 channels and also only the low-complexity

Re: How about: faac compatibility library using vo-aacenc

2012-06-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 27.05.2012 23:25, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: Please share your opinions and ideas! Such a bad idea that noone bothers to reply? ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debia

How about: faac compatibility library using vo-aacenc

2012-05-27 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi all, I am thinking about this idea for quite some time but never got as far as actually implementing it. Do you think it is possible / feasible to develop a library that provides the libfaac API but uses vo-aacenc for the actual encoding? This would help applications that unconditionally depen