[vlc-devel] Is AAC support enabled in VLC 1.0.0-rc4 ffmpeg (MacOS X)?

Felix Paul Kühne fkuehne.videolan at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 25 18:24:29 CEST 2009


Am 25.06.2009 um 16:17 schrieb Andre-John Mas:

> Is there any reason why this not enabled by default? I am refering  
> to the binary release.

Yes, there are licensing issues with FFmpeg in combination with  
libfaac. The FFmpeg developer don't consider libfaac as free software  
anymore. I don't know the details, so if we decide to still support  
libfaac, I'll happily activate it.


Best regards,

Felix



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