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libfaad FAQ, external FAAD info added back.

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AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) is an audio codec sometimes found in MOV and MP4
files. An open source decoder called FAAD is available from
<ulink url="http://www.audiocoding.com"/>.
MPlayer includes libfaad 2.0RC1, so you do not need to get it separately.
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AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) is an audio codec sometimes found in MOV and MP4
files. An open source decoder called FAAD is available from
<ulink url="http://www.audiocoding.com"/>.
MPlayer includes libfaad 2.0RC1, so you do not need to get it separately.
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If you use gcc 3.2 which fails to compile our internal FAAD or want to use
the external library for some other reason, download the library from the
<ulink url="http://www.audiocoding.com/download.php">download page</ulink>
and pass <option>--with-externalfaad</option> to <filename>configure</filename>.
You do not need all of faad2 to decode AAC files, libfaad is enough. Build
it like this:
<screen>
cd faad2/
chmod +x bootstrap
./bootstrap
./configure
cd libfaad
make
make install
</screen>
Binaries are not available from audiocoding.com, but you can (apt-)get Debian
packages from <ulink url="http://marillat.free.fr">Christian Marillat's homepage</ulink>
and Mandrake RPMs from the <ulink url="http://plf.zarb.org">P.L.F</ulink>.
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