FAAC is missing, libgstfaac.so is not present in any package

[David Klasinc]

When gstreamer-plugins-bad is built, libgstfaac.so is omitted from every package. I tried to build the package manually and it didn't help. The library itself is compiled and built, but it is not included in any of the resulting debian packages.

In previous version of GStreamer libgstfaac.so was present in gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse.

Every software that will try to use FAAC in gstreamer 1.0 will not work. :(

[David Klasinc (bigwhale)]

Some additional info:

After installing all the .deb pakages built there's /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstfaad.so, I just copied libgstfaac into the same directory and gst-inspect1.0 faac works as intended.

This clearly seems to be only a packaging problem.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

I'm not sure, but it may be excluded on purpose, since gstreaemr-libav has its own aac encoder:

libav: avenc_aac: libav AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) encoder

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[moma (osmoma)]

Hello,
I noticed this bug when re-compiling audio-recorder for Ubuntu 14.10.
Ref: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~osmoma/audio-recorder/trunk/view/head:/src/media-profiles.c

I also tried the avenc_aac from the "gstreamer1.0-libav" package but the recorded file content (test.aac) got bad.

gst-launch-1.0 -e pulsesrc ! queue ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! avenc_aac compliance=-2 ! filesink location=test.aac

It records, but file content is bad. Maybe it needs other parameters?

[moma (osmoma)]

Adding an avmux_* after encoder might make the pipeline work.
Obrigado.

[moma (osmoma)]

Sorry for spamming you with this, but I want to make the pipeline right.

The pipeline works fine with avenc_aac and avmux_mp4 (or ex. avmux_mov) :

$ gst-launch-1.0 -e pulsesrc device="alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor" ! queue ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! avenc_aac compliance=-2 ! avmux_mp4 ! filesink location=test.mp4

Also the default input-device was by default set to this laptop's internal microphone (and was impossible to change in sound settings), therefore I use the device="xxx" parameter.
$ pactl list | grep -A2 'Source #' | grep 'Name: ' | cut -d" " -f2

What is the right name;
"gstreaemer-libav" or "gstreaemer-plugins-libav"?

EOL.

[Akdor 1154 (akdor1154)]

I think this is still an issue in 17.04...

[rithik g (gkrithi)]

Related bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/1594043