In Ubuntu (and in debian-multimedia) avidemux has been splitted into several packages. There is a dependency of avidemux-plugins-common to libfaac0. Without the plugins avidemux isn't able to convert multimedia files.
On Sun, 22 May 2011 07:06:45 +0200 (CEST) [email protected] wrote: > I don't think there is a dependency on libfaac. Here is what I got when I > typed dpkg --info avidemux_2.5.2-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb (I downloaded the Debian > package from Ubuntu's website in the Lucid section as I'm using Trisquel > Taranis): > > Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.29.3), libavidemux0 (>= 1:2.5.2), libc6 (>= 2.4), > libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), > libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0), > libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1), libstdc++6 (>= > 4.4.0), libx11-6 (>= 0), libxext6 (>= 0), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libxv1, > avidemux-common > > Avidemux-common doesn't depend on any other package (I also downloaded the > pacakge avidemux-common_2.5.2-0ubuntu3_all.deb), so you should be able to > install both of these packages without libfaac. > > I also requested this package in the past. Let's hope it gets added to the > repositories.
