[FFmpeg-devel] [FFmpeg-devel-irc] IRC log for 2010-03-27

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:24:52PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:04:30PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> Benjamin Larsson <banan at ludd.ltu.se> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> >> >>> if wma sounds better than aac then there must be a pretty nasty bug in the
> >> >>> aac encoder
> >> >> 
> >> >> More like the entire AAC encoder _is_ a nasty bug.
> >> >
> >> > AFAIK not much effort has gone into tuning the encoder. But I remember
> >> > long threads about optimizing the bit-packer. So I think calling the
> >> > whole encoder a nasty bug is an overstatement.
> >> 
> >> I suggest we put both this and the vorbis encoder under
> >> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.  That will protect unsuspecting users while still
> >> keeping the code easily accessible for those who wish to work on it.
> >
> > with that it soon wont compile anymore if we are unlucky
> 
> We could turn it on in FATE.

thats certainly a good idea


> 
> > i rather suggest that -f aac maps to faac as long as our encoder
> > is not producing reasonable quality
> 
> I can't think of a nice, clean way to do that.

a second AVCodec for faac that contains the name "aac"
and renaming ours to ffaac
but maybe you consider that unclean

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