Nero6 with AAC+ has arrived. Please discuss your experiences & the container you used

[calinb]

Is anyone able to encode 5.1 AAC with Nero6? My 2-ch encodes work fine, but all I ever get is "unable to open output device" when I add a 5.1 file to a playlist to encode. I tried both AC3 and aiff plugins/input. I tried the wav replacement plugin from rarewares.

Even with an input error, Nero6 can still create an output file, but it doesn't play properly in any case (AAC-LC or AAC-HE).

Thx,


Update:

Okay, I'm making progress now. I had to reinstall CoreAAC. Apparently Nero can't play 6 ch. material on a 2ch sound system. It complains about the output device. However, CoreAAC seems to play it okay when I mux with video to ogm using Nic's Oggmux.

[JohnV]

Originally posted by hans-jürgen
HE AAC which is a part of the Low Complexity profile and does not use that much resources (still more than normal AAC LC of course).
One thing which would be interesting to test is the low-power SBR decoding mode which also FAAD2 can use when compiled with a proper compiler switch. CT's press release about low power sbr decoder claims as much as 40% processing power reduction:
http://www.codingtechnologies.com/news/assets/20021212_necmei_eng.htm

I'd like to do some comparisons how's the quality and processing power reduction with FAAD2 low power mode compared to normal mode. This could be something that even computer users could consider when using multichannel HE AAC, which requires quite a lot of processing power.