<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Gilles</div><div><br></div><div>Yes the ffmpeg build you use compiled with fdk-aac support.</div><div><br></div><div>The codec has a funky license though. I hope that is okay for digiKam.</div><div><br></div><div>https://hub.packtpub.com/free-software-foundation-updates-their-licensing-materials-adds-commons-clause-and-fraunhofer-fdk-aac-license/</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 2018-12-03 9:28 AM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] fdk-aac support in appimage </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">Andrey,<div><br></div><div>Any feedback here ? Did you seen my previous message ?</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Le sam. 24 nov. 2018 à 16:57, Gilles Caulier <<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>The difficulty about ffmpeg compilation is the huge external dependencies to solve to obtain the libraries.</div><div><br></div><div>Remember that DK AppImage is compiled under Centos6 for binary compatibility and ffmpeg is not avaialble by default. To compile ffmpeg i need to use external repositories not official and more and less maintained.</div><div><br></div><div>But, i use also ffmpeg at work to stream endoscope from the machine to Internet. I use also Centos, and i solved this problem recently by using a pre-compiled version of ffmpeg libraries available here :</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/avbuild/files/" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/projects/avbuild/files/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The advantage is to switch from ffmpeg 3 to 4 in appimage.</div><div><br></div><div>The disavantage is to not have any control on ffmpeg codecs available. You must use as well.</div><div><br></div><div>So please take a look at last 4.0.3 XV tarball for linux which contain the static ffmpeg binary. Look if the relevant codecs is available for you...</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Le sam. 24 nov. 2018 à 16:39, Andrey Goreev <<a href="mailto:aegoreev@gmail.com" target="_blank">aegoreev@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Gilles,</div><div><br></div><div>I am wondering if you compile ffmpeg with fdk-aac codec within the appimage.</div><div>Looks like the latest beta appimage can't play such files so I guess the answer is no.</div><div>I have noticed that VLC, ffmpeg, Handbrake, etc. dropped fdk-aac support by default due to some licensing issues and was wondering what is your opinion on this.</div><div><br></div><div>I do have many videos coded using fdk-aac and I have to decide now on whether I recode all of them with another codec or just recompile ffmpeg, VLC and digikam myself.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-5306749566039797291m_8445664903873727247gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Best regards, <br></div><div>Andrey<br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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