Re: Streaming AAC with libshout?
Thomas Rücker <[email protected]>
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Just going to drop my 0,02€ here too. On 24 June 2013 16:47, Daniel James <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Greg, > >> The open source AAC/HE-AAC encoders offer pretty poor audio quality. >> Sometimes you really do get what you pay for, and this is a perfect example. > > An alternative explanation might be that open source developers were not > particularly motivated to work on improving AAC encoders, because of > difficulties experienced when trying to distribute patent-encumbered code. This is at least the explanation why the earlier sent patch by Paul is unlikely to get merged in mainline libshout, as helpful and valuable it might be for some people. We encourage open and patent-problem-free formats. Especially now that with Opus there is a codec, that can at the least match the AAC/HE-AAC efficiency and has already gained main-stream browser support with Firefox, Opera and Chrome probably soon to join. Also it's one of the WebRTC codecs and as such will see further adoption. Cheers Thomas _______________________________________________ Icecast-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast-dev