Comment 5 for bug 93849

No it should be closed as invalid until such a solution is available.
We can't have 10000 open bugs for every feature perceived as missing
or this bugtracker would be pointless for the developers.

On 9/15/08, dotancohen <email address hidden> wrote:
> My field is Mechanical Engineering, not CS. And let there be no mistake,
> I very much respect the people who work on the packages and I appreciate
> their efforts.
>
> However, this bug report requests an extremely important feature for ffmpeg
> and it is being denied (rightly) because of licensing issues. There are two
> ways to fix this:
> 1) Rewrite the AMR codecs from scratch under a FOSS license.
> 2) Relicense the existing AMR codecs.
>
> Both approaches are currently under development. This bug cannot be
> fixed TODAY, but that does not invalidate it. The day will come when one
> or both of the solutions will come to fruitation, and that day this bug
> can be fixed. It should remain open until then.
>
> --
> ffmpeg does not have AMR audio support
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93849
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