Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:44:47 -0600 (CST) From: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> To: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: faad/faac and drm Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0711101643190.1312@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> In-Reply-To: <200711102306.41449.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> References: <200711102306.41449.peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
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On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Peter Schuller wrote: > Hello, > > multimedia@freebsd.org is MAINTAINER of faad/faac, hence I am asking here. > > audio/faac produces .aac files that are not playable with mplayer, nor even > decodeable with faad. Disabling drm in faac makes it playable with mplayer, > but still not decodeable with faad unless drm is disabled in faad too. > > Both ports have explicitly enabled drm by a CONFIGURE_ARGS addition. > > With DRM they won't play/decode with: > > Error: Bitstream value not allowed by specification > > Is there some reason why the ports have drm enabled? Given that it's not > tunable, would it not be a better default to not have it enabled? Under what > circumstances does anyone really want the drm stuff anyway? I think I saw a thread earlier this week about faac 1.26 being broken. Try downgrading to 1.25.
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