[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/en codecs.html,1.124,1.125

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 30 August 2003, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski writes:
[about faad (not) compiling under Linux]
>  > Huh? But it does compile fine. My RPMs are based on that and they work fine
>  > with MPlayer. Shall I correct this?
> 
> Which version do you use?  1.1 did not compile under Linux.  Now there
> is the 2.0RC1 version available, this one does compile.  But it's a
> big mess, you only need libfaad for AAC decoding and faad comes with
> many more things.

http://faac.sourceforge.net/files/faad2-1.1.tar.gz

Although it requires libsndfile to be installed (which you can also find
on my homepage in RPM package).

> There were talks about including libfaad in some form into the MPlayer
> sources.  Maybe it's time to revisit that idea...

I don't think it's necessary. Current setup works fine at my end.

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