[gst-devel] Missing faac

[Jeffrey Barish]

Jeffrey Barish wrote:

> 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.

It's in bad-multiverse.
-- 
Jeffrey Barish