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Bug 202768 - media-video/vlc-0.9.0_alpha20071022 should have a useflag for enabling faad support
Summary: media-video/vlc-0.9.0_alpha20071022 should have a useflag for enabling faad s...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
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Reported: 2007-12-19 11:07 UTC by Christian Schmidt
Modified: 2007-12-21 20:05 UTC (History)
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Description Christian Schmidt 2007-12-19 11:07:59 UTC 
media-video/vlc-0.9.0_alpha20071022 has hardcoded --disable-faad. The faad library is required to play h.264 media encoded and streamed via a separate vlc instance. Introducing a new useflag, e.g. avc or faad, to enable this, would solve this issue. I tested it, and it works successfully with media-libs/faad2-2.6.1.
It's quite hard to tell why the AUDIO codec is needed to play the VIDEO:

<feepk> I can't tell for sure. I just know that it's always been like that. I would guess our demuxer partially depends on that lib, but I'm not sure there. I don't work on these parts of VLC ;)


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-12-19 18:50:23 UTC 
Re-emerge ffmpeg with AAC support.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 174747 ***
Comment 2 Christian Schmidt 2007-12-21 14:51:10 UTC 
a) I have aac support
b) It plays aac fine without faad2
c) it does not play videos encoded with Advanced Video Codec as created by a vlc streaming server.

As I wrote, noone seems to know the relation between avc and faad2, but it is there.