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24th May 2015, 12:07 | #61 | Link | |
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I am using libfdk-aac from within ffmpeg, it does sound pretty good, but VBR modes seem to be problematic. Cheers manolito Last edited by manolito; 24th May 2015 at 14:01. |
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I wonder if LoRd_MuldeR has thought about incorporating this (Fraunhofer FDK) 'open source' version of the AAC encoder into his LameXP audio encoding application?
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Fraunhofer developer (on hydrogenaudio board) has said that their FhG AAC encoder from Winamp still provides better quality than FDK. Some personal tests also indicates the same. So it's still Apple > FhG Winamp > FDK. |
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In StaxRip currently only wav and flac are defined as possible input formats, are there any other formats supported?
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My main dislike when it comes to FDKAAC is the huge bitrate difference between the VBR quality settings, especially the higher -m 4 and -m 5 quality settings. -m 4 seems a bit low while -m 5 is too high. Although I found the gap can be closed somewhat by specifying a low pass filter in the command line. I settled on -w 18500 for both as it increases the low pass frequency for -m 4 and lowers it for -m 5 and seems to produce more sensible bitrates. http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php..._AAC#Bandwidth |
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There are new dummies for the icudt55.dll as addition to makeportable for qaac.
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WARNING with last qaac 2.60 version:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...18#post1782018
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For 5.1 all seems work fine.
I never use 7.1, my audio system is only 5.1 and can't test with a real player the differences but I don't like the patch applied. For 7.1 use qaac 2.59 and always output as .m4a, never like .aac (without --adts parameter).
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I wanted to transcode my 320kbps cbr mp3 radio captured files into something meaningful today, so I found qaac with the default preset (-V91 -q2). So I searched for a small but powerful GUI for it, hence I found BatchEncoder on GitHub yesterday: it reminds me MeGui and BeHappy, but can do batch processing with threading, supports loads of codecs and presets, it can download the only used latest utils (x32 or x64 version). Previously I've been written small batch scripts for this type of audio transcoding: no more
Do I have to install AppleApplicationSupport64 to be able to use qaac? Isn't the CoreAudioToolbox.dll file enough itself? That's what I did: downloaded iTunes x64 and extracted AppleApplicationSupport and AppleApplicationSupport64 with 7zip, then installed x64 version. Quote:
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I've been wondering which output "container" to use for stereo music files, but since most of the players support raw aac streams, I don't care about tagging and mp3directcut only supports raw aac streams I don't see why m4a is better. Am I missing something?
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The "makeportable" batch file extracted all the DLL's from the iTunes64 installer which belong to iTunes' whole feature set; qaac needs only the encoder core. For encoding only, most of the content in the icudt55.dll is not required. But the file icudt55.dll can't be deleted, the encoder would refuse to work if it is not present. But you can replace the original files of several MB size with the tiny dummy DLL's, and the encoder still works. M4A is a subset of the MP4 container which contains useful information about the structure of the AAC audio in its header, which a "raw" AAC audio stream with only ADTS headers partially lacks of. Most of all, the ADTS header is not able to store the channel layout of audio with more than 5.1 channels. Last edited by LigH; 20th January 2018 at 19:54. |
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And I just noticed that the above mentioned BatchEncoder has a thread here on doom9.
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Hello everyone.
I would need your opinion regarding an audio encoding. In your opinion, starting from a DTS Master Audio file, if I wanted to transcode it, would I get a better quality file with qaac encoding at vbr 127 kbit/s or with AC3 at CBR 192 kbit/s? In other words, is it better to encode an audio file with qaac or with AC3? Thank you. |
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