When will VLC support AAC audio codec in *.avi videos?

[thoste]

As I found out AAC audio tracks in *.avi videos are NOT supported by VLC:

Why not?

When will AAC support added for *.avis ?

Ok, maybe you want to answer AAC is a rather new codec for a rather old container (avi). But that is not the point.
From my point of view VLC should be (and declares itself) a multi-purpose-all-round videoplayer.
Hence it should play every combination of codecs.

Thomas

[TypX]

Except when format has limitations like not being able to handle correctly variable frame length (like AAC allows it). It is a lot of work for a, afaik, quite rare combination but if someone has time for that patches are welcome.