QuickTime AAC (How to encode??)

[Sniffer]

As far as i can see Quicktime in constant mode 128kpbs is the Best regarding sound Quality, best then pystel or nero, but my question is:

Let's suppose i have a AC3 File or a wav file from a movie, how to encode to quicktime aac????

I have the Quicktime player professional 6.4, i also heard that is possible with this player to encode for AAC, but i don't seem to find how to do it.

I will use matroska container and join the aac stream in VDM.

Thanks for all your replys.

And it's great to be back after of being way for so long:)

[tiki4]

O.K., welcome back!

You have to adopt a two step scheme to encode in Quicktime. I think Quicktime AAC quality is incredible (for CBR) but there is also the drawback that it doesn't support multi channel encoding. But you may try this:

1. Decode your AC3 with your desired downmix flags to WAV in BeSweet, e.g. besweet -core( -input in.ac3 -output out.wav -2ch -logfile blah.log ) -azid( -n1 -c normal -g max -s surround -L -3db ).

2. Open the Quicktime Player and chose 'import file'. Select in the following dialogue your WAV file (audio files). Then hit CTRL+E or from the menu 'export file' and select MP4 file and in the options you may select bitrate and sampling rate and quality of the encoder. Save the file. You then have a MP4 with AAC LC inside.

3. There is a tool (http://efenstor.stratopoint.com/qutibacoas.htm) that can do that for you from the command line (great for audio ripping in EAC).

Cheers,

tiki4

By the way: Are you the same guy Sniffer on HA.org, then I think JohnV has answered your question already...

[Sniffer]

Many thanks for the info.:)


Yes i'am.:D
Just tryng to get some info as quick as possible.

See you around
Regards
Sniff