[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec: Remove libvo-aacenc support.

Roger Pack rogerdpack2 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 1 01:26:50 CET 2016


On 1/25/16, Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Michael Niedermayer
> <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:24:36AM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>>> Kieran Kunhya <kieran <at> kunhya.com> writes:
>>>
>>> > The internal encoder is superior to libvo-aacenc.
>>>
>>> I thought this was the case for several years?
>>>
>>> Needs a Changelog entry and a news entry together with
>>> libaacplus.
>>
>> how does the speed of all the aac encoders compare ?
>> we should keep the fastest and the one havng best quality per bit
>> (assuming thats a single one and not multiple due to different behavior
>> at different bitrates)
>>
>> also it may make sense to keep activly developed encoders so users and
>> develoeprs can continue to test/compare and use them in case they
>> improve
>>
>
>
> libvo-aacenc is a dump from an earlier Android build. Android has
> since switched to fdk-aac and libvo-aacenc is just dead.
> So from that perspective, there is definitely nothing lost.
>
> Can't judge the speed, but libvo-aacenc has the worst quality of all
> aac lc encoders we had, so I doubt anyone is going to miss it.

For some reason this person:
https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1457
Missed it ("it's 4x slower!")...
FWIW.


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