It is a known issue, and it was not an oversight. See:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/382703/faac-in-ubuntu-13-10-doesnt-
support-mp4
It was removed due to licensing issues -
faac (1.28-5) unstable; urgency=low
[ Andres Mejia ]
* Disable mp4v2 support.
This only disables mp4v2 for the faac utility program. The faac
utility is GPL-2 but the mp4v2 library is MPL-1.1. The two licenses
are incompatible with each other.
[ Reinhard Tartler ]
* Revise debian/copyright
* Bump standards version (no changes needed)
-- Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]> Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:09:31
+0200
Which means that Debian and Ubuntu cannot distributed faac with mp4v2 support
until this licensing issue is resolved.
In the mean time, it is probably the easiest to rebuild faac ourselves with
libmp4v2-dev installed.
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