[gst-devel] Missing faac

[Jeffrey Barish]

sudarshan bisht wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
>            U need to have faac library to get faac plugin .
> 
>            Use this link to download faac library tar package
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/multimedia/faac.html  and
> install it .
> 
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Jeffrey Barish
> <jeff_barish at earthlink.net>wrote:
> 
>> I installed gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad and got faad, but not faac.
>> According to the bad plugins reference manual
>>
>> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-bad-
>> plugins/html/
>>
>> I should have gotten both. gst-inspect faac says
>>
>> No such element or plugin 'faac'
>>
>> Any idea what is going on? This on Ubuntu 9.10. The package that apt
>> installed was 0.10.14-4ubuntu1.
>>
>> I tried sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gstreamer-developers/ppa hoping to
>> get a
>> more recent version, but I still got 0.10.14-4 (only without the ubuntu1
>> suffix). Still no faac. By the way, how do I undo the effect of add-apt-
>> repository? The command does not appear to add anything to
>> /etc/apt/sources.list.

Really?  It looks to me as if that package installs command-line faac, not 
GStreamer faac.  One could also do apt-get install faac to get command-line 
faac -- much easier.  But gst-inspect still reports that faac is not 
available.
-- 
Jeffrey Barish