[OT] Licensing AAC

[shaunopp]

Wondering if any of the developer's here might know what's involved in licensing the AAC format. I use touchscreen juke software that I really like that unfortunately doesn't support AAC. The developer is unsure of how to include it and looking for suggestions. If anyone has any development experience with AAC I'd appreciate any info.

Thanks,

Shaun

[bkenobi]

I was reading something over at the MediaMonkey forums. Apparently there is a charge per user for the AAC codec so it's not typically included in free software (or at least in the free versions). There is a workaround that might help depending on what you need it for. You can install Quicktime (or Quicktime Alternative) and it will get you the codec for free. Just a thought.

Oh, the cost is < $1 per user (closer to $0.50 US) as I understand.

[shaunopp]

Thanks for the info kenobi, I'll pass it along.

-Shaun

[shaunopp]

Thought I'd post this for the general info of the GameEx community in case anyone else uses AlbumPlayer for a touchscreen juke or is interested in licensing AAC's etc. Don't think there's any conflict here as AP isn't really a competitor of GameEx and has been discussed on this forum before. The AP dev's comments below.

-Shaun

Thank you for looking into it in first place.

I know all these links and that is what is holding me from including AAC. There are fees required, and even worse you have to keep an administration for it. Then I have the AP demo, which might also give a difficulty. Should I pay for it or not. As mentioned before, it gives a lot of worries and trouble.

The AP doesn't work wth codecs so the quicktime solution won't work. Because AP runs on BASS audio library I have to use the BASS_AAC plugin, besides patent stuff also a nero license is needed. This is the full list of contacts and links I have to go through to use BASS_AAC.

For commercial use of BASS_AAC, please contact Nero AG at:

[email protected]

For information regarding patent licensing for AAC, please see Via Licensing's website:

http://www.vialicensing.com/products/mpeg4...o/standard.html

For information regarding patent licensing for aacPlus, please see Coding Technologies'

website:

http://www.codingtechnologies.com/licensing/aacplus.htm

For all other formats, which are equal or better, I do not run is this kind of difficulties at all.