[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 42804] raop module does not work with shairport

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42804

--- Comment #35 from Hajime Fujita <crisp.fujita at nifty.com> ---
Hi Matthias,

Thank you so much for the testing and reporting.

By looking at your patch for ALAC support, I found out that the real issue
might not be in the ALAC encoding, but in the raw buffer handling.
I wrote a one-line patch inspired by your patch.
https://github.com/hfujita/pulseaudio-raop2/commit/3b35e02e473873f64e2a5967f4cc55e05ae9d00a
This fixes the "rough sound" issue in my VSX-43+Ryhthmbox, even without Apple's
codec integration.
I'm happy to hear any results from testing this patch.
(However, the sound from Adobe Flash is still terrible. I suppose this is due
to a different cause.)

Regarding ALAC licensing, I actually had a similar concern. That's why I
haven't made my ALAC integration branch public, while I already have it
locally.

Since I'm not a law expert in any sense, the following should not be taken
seriously :)
In the most optimistic way of thinking, header section in each ALAC source file
states that the file is licensed under the Apache License, so I hope we can
just believe it.
However, still I'm not sure if it's okay to link Apache Licensed library into
PulseAudio. The license file in the pulseaudio top directory says that the
server side implementation of PA should be treated as GPL-licensed. So the
question would be "can we link Apache Licensed library to GPL product"?

One possible workaround would be to find another encoder implementation, such
as in libav.

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