ffmeg help please

[Floatingshed]

I am trying to find a windows binary build of ffmpeg containing the high quality aac codec. I understand that licence restrictions prevent it being distributed in that form but it can be legitimately compiled for personal use.
I dont have the first clue how to do that!

Can anyone help me out please?

[filler56789]

Months ago, I managed to compile fdkaac.exe.

If you're interested, I might upload a copy to my Mediafire directory.

[Floatingshed]

Months ago, I managed to compile fdkaac.exe.

If you're interested, I might upload a copy to my Mediafire directory.

I certainly am interested, thanks.

[manolito]

On Sherpya's website
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer/

you can download FFMpeg versions which are compiled in a way so they can use the libfdk-aac DLL if the DLL is present in the same folder as the FFMpeg executable. The libfdk-aac.dll can also be downloaded on this page.


Cheers
manolito

[Floatingshed]

Thanks for the help, got it working. Not sure why I bothered though, in my tests its nothing like as good as Nero aac at low bitrates.

[manolito]

At low bitrates Qaac is even better than Nero...

Here is some detailed information about AAC encoding in FFMpeg:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/AAC

Please note that the native AAC encoder has just gone "stable", and it is now considered to be the "best" quality AAC encoder for FFMpeg.


Cheers
manolito

[filler56789]

OK, here it goes:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/5g58qr3h6w9aqlx/fdkaac-0.6.1-.7z

BTW --- I agree with manolito, Apple's AAC encoder is better than Nero's one.
The Winamp DLL (via fhgaacenc) is a good choice as well.

[LithosZA]

FYI if you wan't to encode to AAC-HEv1 or AAC-HEv2 with libfdk_aac then you need to specify the -profile:a aac_he or -profile:a aac_he_v2 options.
It won't choose those options automatically based on the bitrate unlike other encoders such as Nero.

[LithosZA]

Please note that the native AAC encoder has just gone "stable", and it is now considered to be the "best" quality AAC encoder for FFMpeg.

I'm a bit skeptical about the native AAC encoder's quality since no public listening tests have been done yet. Also note that at the moment it is only an LC-AAC encoder so it can only do >= 96Kbps without sounding like garbage.
I've tested the native AAC encoder recently and it does sound a lot better than it used to sound like.

[kotuwa]

How about

QAAC.
For AAC (M4A, MP4), WAV, FLAC inputs, just QAAC portable build.

For other audio formats and video containers, QAAC (or Nero) with FFMPEG stdout.
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