faad/faac and drm

[Jeremy Messenger]

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 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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