I decided to give MythBuntu 10.04 beta a try, but coming from Arch Linux, I am surprised to see that MythTV is built without libfaad/HE-AAC support in MythBuntu. libfaad support has been required to get sound on half of the available free to air channels in Denmark, after the plug on analogue television was pulled ~5 months ago. Denmark was one of the first European countries to make the switch to MPEG-4 AVC, but as you can see on the following link, around half of the European countries will be making the switch to MPEG-4 AVC as well, within the next few years:
http://www.digitag.org/ASO/ASO.html
I've confirmed the issue by recompiling the mythtv package ("apt-get source mythtv", adding "--enable-libfaad" to debian/rules, "apt-get -b source mythtv", etc.), and I now have sound on all channels, including the new MPEG-4 AVC channels.
Any chance you can add the "--enable-libfaad" flag to the (auto)build process? It's impossible to have autobuild enabled, if you looses sound on every update :-/
This bug was fixed in the package mythtv - 0.23.0+
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mythtv (0.23.0+
[ Jamie Bennett ]
* Fix FTBFS on armel (LP: #537714)
[ Mario Limonciello ]
* mythtv-
- Simplify debconf questions by avoiding showing the generated pw
- Don't warn about mythtv group.
- Don't notify about running mythtv-setup. This is optional (but
of course encouraged!)
* Set version to include a "+" delimitter.
* Restore libfaad-dev dependency. (LP: #546552)
[ Dave Walker (Daviey) ]
* New snapshot (r23789), based from 0.23-fixes.
* debian/control:
- mythtv-frontend set to Conflict with mythflix, as it's dropped
upstream. (LP: #544521)
- Remove unnecessary and potentially problematic use of Pre-Depends.
- Set the debug package to Priority extra.
- Change *-perl Section's from libs to perl
- add ${shlibs:Depends} for mythtv-common Depends field
- Minor spelling fix.
- Fixes the long description for one of the packages, ensuring the
description doesn't exceed 80 characters.
- Vcs-* set to -fixes, rather than -trunk.
* debian/rules:
- Use debconf-updatepo to update translations when required
- Ensure license files are not included in the binary packages, except
for debian/copyright.
- Fixes the permissions of certain files in the packaging.
* debian/copyright:
- updated to reflect that mythtv is GPL-2 only.
- inserted better licence statement and Copyright reference.
* debian/
- Simplified strings; removed verbosity and improved readability.
* Prevent the maintainer scripts from failing in case any questions
can't be displayed.
* Added holding debian/
* debian/
* debian/
* debian/
binNMU warnings.
* Fix perl binding installation.
-- Dave Walker (Daviey) <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:32:33 +0000