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From: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
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Subject: Re: faad/faac and drm
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On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Peter Schuller wrote:

> Hello,
>
> multimedia@freebsd.org is MAINTAINER of faad/faac, hence I am asking here.
>
> audio/faac produces .aac files that are not playable with mplayer, nor even
> decodeable with faad. Disabling drm in faac makes it playable with mplayer,
> but still not decodeable with faad unless drm is disabled in faad too.
>
> Both ports have explicitly enabled drm by a CONFIGURE_ARGS addition.
>
> With DRM they won't play/decode with:
>
> Error: Bitstream value not allowed by specification
>
> Is there some reason why the ports have drm enabled? Given that it's not
> tunable, would it not be a better default to not have it enabled? Under what
> circumstances does anyone really want the drm stuff anyway?

I think I saw a thread earlier this week about faac 1.26 being broken. Try 
downgrading to 1.25.