# Where is faad in android pre-compiled binary?

**URL:** https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/where-is-faad-in-android-pre-compiled-binary/4138
**Category:** Application Development
**Tags:** android
**Created:** [February 17, 2025, 6:01am UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/where-is-faad-in-android-pre-compiled-binary/4138 "2025-02-17T06:01:24Z")
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### Author: ![pierluc-codes](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/user_avatar/discourse.gstreamer.org/pierluc-codes/32/1161_2.png) [@pierluc-codes](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/u/pierluc-codes)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2025, 6:01am UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/where-is-faad-in-android-pre-compiled-binary/4138/1 "2025-02-17T06:01:24Z")

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Hi,

I cannot found faad in the android pre-compiled binary. It is expected?

It seems I am able to find other `GSTREAMER_PLUGINS_CODECS_RESTRICTED` like asfmux

```auto
00:55:15 pierluc@MacBookPro ~/src/gitlab.freedesktop.org/GStreamer/gstreamer-1.0-android-universal-1.24.12/arm64
➜ find . -name '*asfmux*'
./lib/gstreamer-1.0/pkgconfig/gstasfmux.pc
./lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstasfmux.a
./lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstasfmux.la

```

but not faad ☹

```auto
00:55:20 pierluc@MacBookPro ~/src/gitlab.freedesktop.org/GStreamer/gstreamer-1.0-android-universal-1.24.12/arm64
➜ find . -name '*mad*'

```

Any idea?

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### Author: ![ystreet00](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ystreet00](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/u/ystreet00)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2025, 9:47am UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/where-is-faad-in-android-pre-compiled-binary/4138/2 "2025-02-17T09:47:28Z")

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The faad plugin (and dependencies) are not packaged. See [recipes/gst-plugins-bad-1.0.recipe · main · GStreamer / cerbero · GitLab](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/cerbero/-/blob/main/recipes/gst-plugins-bad-1.0.recipe?ref_type=heads#L60)

[faad enable faad2 recipe for compile version 1.16 (#218) · Issues · GStreamer / cerbero · GitLab](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/cerbero/-/issues/218) is a related issue about this.

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### Author: ![tpm](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@tpm](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/u/tpm)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2025, 10:33am UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/where-is-faad-in-android-pre-compiled-binary/4138/3 "2025-02-17T10:33:25Z")

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The `libav` plugin has an AAC decoder, however (`avdec_aac`), which is also LGPL-licensed instead of GPL-licensed.