Hello list,
Having added debian -multimedia to my /etc/apt/sources.list I
experimented to see whether I had native support for most audio codecs
and encoders. Running the popular audio format conversion program
'soundconverter' I realized I wasn't able to encode into AAC format,
even though I had the 'faac' program installed within my system. I then
googled a bit and installed another package from the relevant debian -
multimedia page (
http://debian-multimedia.org/dists/stable/main/binary-alpha/package/faac.php
) yet still I have no luck with AAC. Here's the relevant terminal output:
jason@debian:~$ sudo aptitude show faac
Package: faac
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.28-0.3
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org
<mailto:marillat@debian.org>>
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Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), libfaac0 (>= 1.28), libmp4v2-1 (>= 2:1.9.1),
libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1)
Description: an AAC audio encoder
FAAC currently supports MPEG-4 LTP, MAIN and LOW COMPLEXITY object
types and MAIN and LOW MPEG-2 object types. It also supports
multichannel and gapless encoding.
Homepage: http://www.audiocoding.com/
jason@debian:~$
jason@debian:~$
jason@debian:~$ sudo dpkg -i faac_1.28-0.3_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 147934 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace faac 1.28-0.3 (using faac_1.28-0.3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement faac ...
Setting up faac (1.28-0.3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
jason@debian:~$
jason@debian:~$
jason@debian:~$ soundconverter &
[1] 3807
jason@debian:~$ SoundConverter 1.4.4
using Gstreamer version: 0.10.25, Python binding version: 0.10.17
using gio
'faac' element not found, disabling AAC.
using 2 thread(s)
/usr/bin/soundconverter:2615: Warning: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
gnome.init(NAME, VERSION)
[1]+ Done soundconverter
Any ideas on how to get a working AAC encoder in my Debian system? Or
perhaps there's some known issue with 'soundconverter' that I'm missing
and you'd like to recommend another converter to me (I'm using KDE, by
the way, and have come to understand that soundconverter is a GNOME
application, not that I mind, just saying).
Thank you.