Re: Installing ffmeg-free degrades firefox video support

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On Wednesday, 08 June 2022 at 22:41, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 8 2022 at 09:47:53 PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
> <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The above is mostly correct. It's not about audio quality, but
> > correctness. Specifically, HE-AAC audio is decoded incorrectly.
> > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1501522#c22
> > for more details.
> 
> Looking at this... it seems your argument is that it would be better to use
> ffmpeg's AAC decoder instead. But I don't believe that implementation of AAC
> has been approved by Fedora Legal, so it's probably not an option for us?

That is correct.

> My understanding is that fdk-aac is the only permitted AAC implementation in
> Fedora, so it's a choice between that or no AAC at all.

fdk-aac-free, yes.

> Seems like fixing it would be better than removing it? :)

I guess it could be fixed with a clean-room reimplementation of the
stripped parts of FDK-AAC.

Regards,
Dominik
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