On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM akallabeth <akallabeth+debian@posteo.net> wrote:
Upstream FreeRDP also supports the fdk-aac encoder which can be enabled with
-DWITH_FDK_AAC=ON during build.
Since this dependency is also in the repo it would be preferrable to have this
working AAC encoder compiled in instead of one bailing out on some input data.
fdk-aac is in non-free. By Debian Policy, we cannot have packages in
Debian main depend on it.
I tried to get fdk-aac-free into Debian main but it was rejected last
year and I haven't had the spare time or energy to try to appeal that
decision. [1]
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-multimedia/2024/07/msg00265.html
Beyond freerdp, I know that gnome-remote-desktop, gst-plugins-bad1.0
and pipewire would also like to use fdk-aac.
In Ubuntu, the Ubuntu Security Team rejected my attempt to use
fdk-aac-free for the default Ubuntu install.
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1977614
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha