faad/faac and drm

[Michael Johnson]

On Nov 13, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:44:47 -0600, Wes Morgan  
> <morganw at chemikals.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Peter Schuller wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> multimedia at 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?
>
> Good question, I have no idea why ahze has put drm enabled by  
> default. I will have to ask him. It's a bit hard for him to use  
> computer at the moment with his broke finger with bracket from hand  
> to arm. :-)
>

I added it in 2004 because it was used in the .spec file included  
with faad. no other reason. I see this problem also
with some profiles (LC-mpeg2) of faac. I say get rid of it --enable- 
drm since its causing problems now.
> I think that --enable-drm is Digital Radio Mondiale, not Digital  
> Rights Management. I didn't check in there thought.
>
>> I think I saw a thread earlier this week about faac 1.26 being  
>> broken. Try downgrading to 1.25.
>
> Why downgrade if you can get faad/faac works when you disable drm? ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>
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