FAAD2

Version:

2.8.8

Release date:

Monday, 5 November, 2012

Home:

https://www.audiocoding.com/faad2.html

Categories:

Applications: audio/video

License:

GPL

Interface:

VIO

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

KO Myung-Hun

Gianfilippo Cimmino

FAAD2 (Freeware Advanced Audio (AAC) Decoder) is a decoder for AAC audio formats.

The AAC format is a lossy encoding format audio files (ie with loss of quality) rival of the popular MP3.

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder, better if in PATH. See below for download link(s).

Following is a list of prerequisites that you have to manually install in order to have the program working:

kLIBC / GCC Runtime Library

You can install the prerequisites with rpm running the following string in a command line:

yum install libc libgcc1 libssp libstdc++6 libstdc++ libsupc++6 libsupc++ libgcc-fwd

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

FAAD2 v. 2.8.8 (9/10/2019, KO Myung-Hun)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/mm/faad2-2.8.8.zip
FAAD2 v. 2.7.0 (23/1/2017, KO Myung-Hun)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/mm/faad2-2.7.0.zip
FAAD2 v. 2.7 (5/11/2012, Gianfilippo Cimmino)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/mm/faad2-2.7-os2.zip