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Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 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. __________ COPYRIGHTS For FAAD the following license applies: ****************************************************************************** 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. ****************************************************************************** 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! ______ PEOPLE FAAD2 is written by: - menno ([email protected]). _______________ VERSION HISTORY Version 1.1: 8 aug 2002 - Almost 50% speedup, due to new Huffman decoding - Better error handling - LD (Low Delay) AAC supported - ER (Error Resilient) AAC profiles supported - Complete new MDCT code - Bug fixes Version 1.0: 14 jan 2002 - Initial revision of completely rewritten FAAD 2 library __________________________________ REDISTRIBUTED OPEN SOURCE PACKAGES This is the list of redistributed open source packages that are included in FAAD2: Name: libsndfile Version: 1.0.0rc2 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: 0.9.5 Origin: http://www.mpeg4ip.net Author: David Mackie Directory: common/mp4v2 License: MPL, Mozilla Public License, version 1.1 ___________________ DIRECTORY STRUCTURE faad2 - top level directory. aacDECdrop - windows decoder/player with drag'n'drop functionality 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. codebook - Huffman codebooks 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. xmms - xmms AAC plugin