FAAC

Section: Free Advanced Audio Coder (1)
Updated: 2007-10-11
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NAME

faac - open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC encoder

 

SYNOPSIS

faac [options] [-o outfile] infiles ...

<infiles> and/or <outfile> can be "-", which means stdin/stdout.

 

DESCRIPTION

FAAC is an open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC encoder, it is licensed under the LGPL license. Note that the quality of FAAC is not up to par with the currently best AAC encoders available.

 

FEATURES

* Portable

* Reasonably fast

* LC, Main, LTP support

* DRM support through DreaM (optional)

 

OPTIONS

-q <quality>

Set default variable bitrate (VBR) quantizer quality in percent (default: 100).

-b <bitrate>

Set average bitrate (ABR, lower quality mode) to approximately bitrate kbps.

-c <freq>

Set the bandwidth in Hz (default: automatic).

-o X

Set output file to X (only for one input file).

-r

Use RAW AAC output file.

-P

Raw PCM input mode (default: 44100Hz 16bit stereo).

-R

Raw PCM input rate.

-B

Raw PCM input sample size (8, 16 [default], 24 or 32bits).

-C

Raw PCM input channels.

-X

Raw PCM swap input bytes

-I <C,LF>

Input channel config (default: 3,4 [which means Center is third and LFE is fourth]).

 

MP4-SPECIFIC OPTIONS (if built with MP4V2)

-w

Wrap AAC data in MP4 container (default for *.mp4 and *.m4a).

-s

Optimize MP4 container layout after encoding.

--artist X

Set artist to X

--writer X

Set writer to X

--title X

Set title to X

--genre X

Set genre to X

--album X

Set album to X

--compilation

Set compilation

--track X

Set track to X (number/total)

--disc X

Set disc to X (number/total)

--year X

Set year to X

--cover-art X

Read cover art from file X

--comment X

Set comment to X

 

DOCUMENTATION

--help

for short help on using FAAC.

--long-help

for a description of all options for FAAC.

--license

for the license terms for FAAC.

 

AUTHORS

FAAC was written by M. Bakker <menno@audiocoding.com>.

This manpage was written by Fabian Greffrath <fabian@debian-unofficial.org> for the Debian Unofficial project (but may be used by others, of course).

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Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

FEATURES

OPTIONS

MP4-SPECIFIC OPTIONS (if built with MP4V2)

DOCUMENTATION

AUTHORS