[Bf-committers] Fwd: Copyright violation distributing faac binaries together with GPL software

[Reuben Martin]

On Thursday, January 06, 2011, Leo Sutic wrote:
> The solution is to compile FFmpeg / libavcodec without libfaac.
> (Throwing out x264 is not an option, as libfaac has more problems than
> just being GPL-incompatible) It should be a build config change and
> that's it - but someone has to build a new distribution. Then we should
> be OK. SVN is down fot the moment, so I haven't been able to look at the
> 2.49 source to figure out where the change needs to be made.
> 
> We lose the ability to encode sound using AAC, but nothing more.
> 

FFMPEG has their own AAC decoder which should work for the decode side. They have been developing their own AAC encoder as well, but it's still a work in progress.

I've always built against my system's ffmpeg (0.6.1+) without any issues. (at least for building)

-Reuben