[mythtv] Ticket #5487: LATM AAC audio stream support

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Fri Jan 30 07:04:59 UTC 2009


On Friday 30 January 2009 1:53:22 am Paul Kendall wrote:
> On Friday 30 January 2009 18:46:33 Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 January 2009 11:19:59 pm Paul Kendall wrote:
> > > Same here.
> > > This specific ticket is a *must* for NZ and other countries and I'd be
> > > grateful if was at least triaged to go in to 0.22. I, and others, have
> > > been using this patch in both 0.21 and trunk for many months without
> > > issue.
> >
> > It'd probably help if the libavcodec changes were in upstream ffmpeg.  We
> > generally do not like to maintain other people's patches to those
> > libraries, especially if they're as large as these are.
>
> Sure, I want ed to get the change in libavcodec, but they really want it as
> a filter rather than a decoder. I think that would then cause problems in
> Myth (correct me if I'm wrong) and then we'd need another re-sync, which
> takes quite a long time from past experience.
>
> I thought we could at least get it in and working, then perhaps re-jig it
> as a filter and change Myth to support the libfilter framework and
> contribute the filter back to ffmpeg.

If it's not going in to ffmpeg without major changes, then that's a fairly 
large strike against applying the patch here.

Isaac



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