Last week I had Claude add support for aac audio to davinci resolve on Linux, just by patching the binary. It did almost exclusively with gdb and objdump, patching about 5 functions over an hour or two.

I only got it to the proof of concept stage. The patch adds aac but breaks flac support in the process. And it only works for aac in mp4 container files. But I’m sure with a bit of time we could make a patch which works everywhere and is additive only.

I say ‘we’ - I barely helped. Almost all the work was done by Claude.

Here’s Claude’s report, if anyone wants to build on this work:

https://claude.ai/code/artifact/87d38c2e-9ecb-4066-90cf-e0b2...