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

[Diego Biurrun]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski writes:
 > 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

File not found.

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

No use for RPM here, I use Debian and Marillat's faad packages, which
work fine.

 > > 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.

Still faad is a problem for many people and it's an important codec,
where you have to go to the trouble of installing some extra library.

Diego