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In Ubuntu 13.10, faac doesn't support MP4. If you run faac --help you get:

Freeware Advanced Audio Coder

FAAC 1.28

Usage: faac [options] infiles ...

Options:

-q Set quantizer quality.

-b Set average bitrate to x kbps. (ABR, lower quality mode)

-c Set the bandwidth in Hz. (default=automatic)

-o X Set output file to X (only for one input file)

-r Use RAW AAC output file.

-P Raw PCM input mode (default 44100Hz 16bit stereo).

-R Raw PCM input rate.

-B Raw PCM input sample size (8, 16 (default), 24 or 32bits).

-C Raw PCM input channels.

-X Raw PCM swap input bytes

-I Input channel config, default is 3,4 (Center third, LF fourth)

MP4 specific options:

MP4 support unavailable.

Documentation:

--license Show the FAAC license.

--help Show this abbreviated help.

--long-help Show complete help.

More tips can be found in the audiocoding.com Knowledge Base at

http://www.audiocoding.com/wiki/

In previous versions, I could run faac with -w and --artist, --album, etc. options, and now I can't.

Jorge Castro
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Johny
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It was removed due to licensing issues - 

faac (1.28-5) unstable; urgency=low

[ Andres Mejia ]
Disable mp4v2 support.
This only disables mp4v2 for the faac utility program. The faac
utility is GPL-2 but the mp4v2 library is MPL-1.1. The two licenses
are incompatible with each other.

So if you wish back then you'll need to either downgrade faac & libfaac0 to the faac (1.28-4) packages or simply get the current source & rebuild with libmp4v2-dev installed.

doug
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For anyone else finding this question, yes mp4v2 was removed. Rebuilding with the library went smoothly with the following hints:

sudo apt-get build-dep faac
apt-get source faac
cd faac-*

That should get you into the source directory. Edit debian/rules to remove the "--without-mp4v2" part. For me it meant removing the entire override_dh_auto_configure section.

sudo apt-get install libmp4v2-dev
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

My computer already had all the software for building packages installed, so consider this just some hints to finish up the build.

crcarlin
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