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Port details on branch 2024Q4
faac MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AAC audio encoder
1.50 audio on this many watch lists=49 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 1.31.1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: multimedia@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2004-05-06 08:41:21
Last Update: 2026-04-19 07:52:19
Commit Hash: 41db694
People watching this port, also watch:: unzip, gmake, libiconv, libogg, libvorbis
License: GPLv3+ ISO LGPL21+
WWW:
https://github.com/knik0/faac
Description:
FAAC (Freeware Advanced Audio Coder) is an MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 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.
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Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. @ldconfig
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/faac-1.50/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/faac-1.50/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/faac-1.50/GPLv3+
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/faac-1.50/ISO
  6. /usr/local/share/licenses/faac-1.50/LGPL21+
  7. bin/faac
  8. include/faac.h
  9. include/faaccfg.h
  10. lib/libfaac.a
  11. lib/libfaac.so
  12. lib/libfaac.so.0
  13. lib/libfaac.so.0.0.0
  14. libdata/pkgconfig/faac.pc
  15. share/man/man1/faac.1.gz
  16. @owner
  17. @group
  18. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • faac>0:audio/faac
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/audio/faac/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install audio/faac
  • pkg install faac
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: faac
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1776584559 SHA256 (knik0-faac-faac-1.50_GH0.tar.gz) = e6876cba00cbd786a7f984d9aaada4d5bcb08d2582100366c70f6164d5c89214 SIZE (knik0-faac-faac-1.50_GH0.tar.gz) = 113590

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SHA256 (ecd5a10122a9ce698516bb587b6036efab0a787d.patch) = 48be7a6418b837a5bb715877ce25d65f0634f3bf60677d1e3f38564615118f5b SIZE (ecd5a10122a9ce698516bb587b6036efab0a787d.patch) = 594

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
faac
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest1.501.501.29.9.2_31.31.11.50n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly1.31.11.31.11.301.31.11.31.1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest1.501.501.301.31.11.501.30-1.30
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.31.11.31.1-1.31.11.31.11.301.301.30
FreeBSD:15:latest1.501.50n/a1.31.1n/an/a1.30_11.30_1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly1.31.11.31.1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest1.501.50n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. meson : devel/meson
  2. ninja : devel/ninja
This port is required by:
for Libraries
  1. audio/gstreamer1-plugins-faac
  2. multimedia/avidemux
  3. multimedia/avidemux-cli
  4. multimedia/avidemux-plugins
  5. multimedia/avidemux-qt5

Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. audio/gstreamer-plugins-faac*
  2. multimedia/avidemux-qt4*
  3. multimedia/avidemux2*
  4. multimedia/avidemux2-plugins*
  5. multimedia/avidemux26*
  6. multimedia/avidemux26-cli*
  7. multimedia/avidemux26-plugins*
  8. multimedia/avidemux26-qt4*
  9. multimedia/mpeg4ip*
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for Run
  1. audio/pacpl

Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. audio/gnormalize*
  2. multimedia/transkode*
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* - deleted ports are only shown under the This port is required by section. It was harder to do for the Required section. Perhaps later...
Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
audio_faac
USES:
compiler:c11 meson
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/knik0/faac/tar.gz/faac-1.50?dummy=/
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