On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM akallabeth <[email protected]> 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
