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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Website|FAAD2 and FAAC|https://www.audiocoding.com}}<br />
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'''FAAD2''' or '''Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder''' is a project for ''decoding'' [[AAC]] in [[MPEG-4]] and [[MPEG-2]].<br />
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'''FAAC''' or '''Freeware Advanced Audio Codec''' is a project for ''encoding'' AAC in MPEG-4 and MPEG-2.<br />
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Both projects are released under the GPLv2, making them [[open-source]].<span id="Note-backlink"></span><sup>[[#Note|&dagger;]]</sup> SourceForge hosts [[Git]] (source code) for both components, and there are respective GitHub mirrors. SourceForge also hosts binaries (executable code) for Windows (<code>*.exe</code>) and Linux (<code>*.tar.gz</code>).<br />
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{{VLC}} uses the FAAD2 [[library]], libfaad, in the {{VLCSourceFile|modules/codec/faad.c|l=faad.c}} module; but VLC no longer uses the FAAC library, libfaac.<br />
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== Note ==<br />
<big><sup>[[#Note-backlink|&dagger;]]</sup></big> When audiocoding.com says it supports DRM, it does not mean ''[[Digital Restrictions Management]]'' but rather ''Digital Radio Mondiale''. Supporting Digital Restrictions Management might (arguably) cast doubt on whether the project is truly open-source.<br />
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== Links ==<br />
* [https://www.audiocoding.com/ Audiocoding.com]<br />
** [https://www.audiocoding.com/faad2.html FAAD2 page]<br />
** [https://www.audiocoding.com/faac.html FAAC page]<br />
* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/faac/ SourceForge - FAAC project]<br />
** [https://sourceforge.net/p/faac/faad2/ci/master/tree/ FAAD2 Git] <small>([https://github.com/knik0/faad2 GitHub mirror])</small><br />
** [https://sourceforge.net/p/faac/faac/ci/master/tree/ FAAC Git] <small>([https://github.com/knik0/faac GitHub mirror])</small><br />
* [https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=faac Git commit search for faac in VLC]<br />
** {{Commitdiff|869c2e414e1bb954a2ed4f881c87ffe0f103f209|l=contribs: disable libfaac on Darwin (as part of ffmpeg) as it considered nonfree now}}<br />
** {{Commitdiff|b381e4a4c9b3b8031fe0af7a6620ceea34ddd13d|l=Contrib: remove faac from ffmpeg. Without this, ffmpeg refuses to build due to licensing problems.}}<br />
** {{Commitdiff|34ba8bd409b16a33353b2240330b405c970b0f7c|l=Faac is NOT compatible with VLC. Too bad for your AAC encoding, but, well.}}<br />
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