faac for Debian
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In Debian, faac is built without support for MP4 containers. This is because
the mp4v2 library used by faac for wrapping data in MP4 containers is
licensed under the terms of the MPL-1.1, which is incompatible with the
(mixture of) licenses that apply for faac itself. Please note that this only
affects the faac command line frontend, the libfaac encoding library did
never support MP4 containers anyway.

However, it is possible to locally rebuild the faac package with MP4
support. For this, install the libmp4v2-dev package and rebuild the faac
source package with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=mp4v2, e.g.:

  $ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=mp4v2 dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

Please keep in mind the the resulting binary packages will be 
unredistributable!

For further discussion of this topic please refer to #797838.

 -- Fabian Greffrath <fabian@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Nov 2015 07:54:13 +0100
