MPEG-4 files and sound

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 11:05 -0800, David Ing wrote:
> I can't answer your question about the MPEG-4 and AC3, but I can tell you
> that `gst-inspect-1.0 faac` finds nothing on my Ubuntu 18.04 system.
> However it does find the "faad" plugin
> here:  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstfaad.so

This is what is strange. faac and faad are listed as plugins, but whilst faad
is in Debian (and thus Ubuntu, Mint, etc.), faac appears not to be.

> One approach is to use the "avenc_aac" plugin instead.

I believe that will fail as the mp4mux appears not to have an AAC sink pad.
However, I hadn't about that element, so good the read about. :-)

Merry Christmas!

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