[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc: remove libfaac wrapper

[Rostislav Pehlivanov]

On 30 September 2016 at 18:12, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:33:04AM +0200, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
> > > dont remember if it was specific to libfaac but some issues in the
> > > mov edit list patches about initial padding and trailing padding
> > > where found using libfaac as encoder.
> > > if libfaac support is droped, muxers wont be tested against it anymore
> > > most likely. It could be done with command line faac and remuxing but
> > > that special case makes it so unwieldy that i doubt anyone will do it
> > >
> > > also quite some testcases in trac tickets used libfaac as it was
> > > default at the time,
> > > regression testing future changes against these tickets may be
> > > unreliable without libfaac
> >
> > Isn't it possible to just generate raw aac, or some other low level
> > container format, with faac, and store those as fate samples?
>
> It is probably possible for some cases and it would be a good idea
> either way, but iam not sure theres a volunteer to do this.
>
>
I'll do it, just post links to the tickets.