The copy of faac under Ubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04 has 2 limitations:
- It does not have mp4/m4a support
- It cannot use high bitrates
How can I rebuild faac, using correct Debian packaging techniques, to overcome these problems?
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.mp4aacm4apackagingpatch
The copy of faac under Ubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04 has 2 limitations:
How can I rebuild faac, using correct Debian packaging techniques, to overcome these problems?
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Best Answer
It is possible to rebuild the Trusty faac package and solve both of these issues as follows:
Use the following steps:
First install the required build dependencies, some build tools and the new dependency of libmp4v2:
Then make a build directory, get a patch to allow higher bitrates with faac and apply that patch:
Appropriately change the packaging information:
My own editing of this file is as follows:
It is important to make the version number incrementally greater than the repository version or your next update might overwrite your new package!
Make proper documentation of the patch:
Add a brief description of the purpose of the patch in the dialogue box that opens with this command.
And finally rebuild and install the package:
And now you have access to higher bitrates with faac and you can output to an appropriately tagged m4a/mp4 container!
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