[aklug] encoding and aac in Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)

Because aac is a non-free codec, the developers of Ubuntu have decided
to remove the aac encoder from their build of ffmpeg. This causes
problems because the aac codec is used quite a bit in various ways.

I ran across the link below and was able to use choice C. Medibuntu as
an easy way to get the aac encoder installed.

I did have to remove ffmpeg and libavcodec-extra-52 before completing
the steps.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1117283

I'd be interested to know if this works for anyone using a fresh
install, because I ran across about 10 other ways to accomplish this
and failed and worry that my previous steps may have also contributed
to this getting resolved.

In the mean time, I'm looking for an audio codec that I can use on my
Android (1.5) phone along with video.

Mike B.

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Received on Sun Sep 26 21:04:15 2010