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Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder version 2
http://www.audiocoding.com/
FAAD 2 is a LC, MAIN and LTP profile, MPEG2 and MPEG-4 AAC decoder, completely
written from scratch. FAAD 2 is licensed under the GPL.
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COPYRIGHTS
For FAAD the following license applies:
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FAAD - Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder
Copyright (C) 2002 M. Bakker
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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Please note that the use of this software may require the payment of
patent royalties. You need to consider this issue before you start
building derivative works. We are not warranting or indemnifying you in
any way for patent royalities! YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN
ACTIONS!
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PEOPLE
FAAD2 is written by:
- menno ([email protected]).
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REDISTRIBUTED OPEN SOURCE PACKAGES
This is the list of redistributed open source packages that are included
in FAAD2:
Name: libsndfile
Version: 0.0.27
Origin: http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile
Author: Erik de Castro Lopo
Directory: common/libsndfile
License: GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 1999
Name: id3lib
Version: 3.7.9
Origin: http://id3lib.sourceforge.net
Author: Dirk Mahoney, Scott Haug
Directory: common/id3lib
License: GNU Library General Public License, version 2, June 1991
Name: mp4v2
Version: 0.9.2
Origin: http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net
Author: David Mackie
Directory: common/mp4v2
License: MPL, Mozilla Public License, version 1.1
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DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
faad2 - top level directory.
common - generally used libraries and code.
faad - general common functions like filereading and streaming
as well as getting info from aac files.
id3lib - id3 tag editor library.
libsndfile - general audio file reading library.
mp4v2 - MPEG-4 file reading library.
frontend - command line frontend to the FAAD2 library, also supports
MPEG-4 file decoding.
include - inlude file for teh FAAD2 library.
libfaad - the FAAD2 AAC decoder library.
plugins - plugins for all kinds of pograms.
in_mp4 - winamp MPEG-4 AAC file input plugin.
winamp - winamp2 AAC input plugin.
winamp3 - winamp3 AAC input plugin.