[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] dynload for libfaac

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Gianluigi Tiesi <mplayer at netfarm.it> wrote:
> Hi,
> since libfaac cannot be linked in ffmpeg, I've made a patch similar to faadbin,
> I've made the patch for windows, but I've converted to use ldl on unix
> It worked for me on linux, but please test.
>
> I think the code can be unified e.g. with libfaadbin and maybe move
> some of the code in avutil
>
> I've removed at all the previous way to use libfaac, since it's not redistributable
> I think it does not make much sense to have it.

Many, many companies use libfaac on servers and don't redistribute
their FAAC binary.  I don't see why we should remove the normal
linking.

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