Comment 45 for bug 197957

Kip,
libaften is not JUST a derivative. For example it's thread-safe, but more importantly uses multiple threads offering drastically improved latency... Important for ALSA plugins. Using the most developed and advanced encoder should be a priority.

It may be good enough to offer support for just any capable encoder, but it's an ohh-well whatever solution. Most users would be surprised to discover that they are getting the "just whatever worked once", instead of getting the "best".

There are several descriptions as to what a52plug is, I'm not interested in authoring another.