Bug 202768

Summary:	media-video/vlc-0.9.0_alpha20071022 should have a useflag for enabling faad support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christian Schmidt <gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.