Questions tagged [aac]
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an encoding scheme for lossy compression of digital audio designed to be the successor of the MP3 format.
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How to encode FLAC and DTS audio formats to AAC most efficiently?
I have been encoding audio for my own personal media library from various formats into AAC available for direct play on my Plex Server. I have been using the following command with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i &...
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my ffmpeg livestream keeps crashing: How do I troubleshoot?
I can't find the reason on why it is crashing, all I have is a list of mp3 files which are encoded to AAC on the fly.
stream.sh
#!/bin/bash
ffmpeg \
-stream_loop -1 -re \
-i video.mp4 \
-safe 0 \
-f ...
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Can I use Git to track MP3 and AAC metadata without corrupting files?
I have a collection of roughly 7k (40GB) MP3 and AAC files, these files I have collected over the years and put through different players and organisers. Unfortunately during that time some of these ...
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ffmpeg - converting one audio track of a multi-track mp4
I'm having a few mp4 with two audio tracks,
an english one in aac and a french one in dts.
Now I want to convert only the french dts to eac3 with a single ffmpeg command.
I use
ffmpeg -hide_banner -i ...
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FFMPEG - Converting from WAV to AAC changes the length of the audio file and causes video to be out of sync
Disclaimer: I am a complete novice at computer science, coding, etc.
TLDR: Converting from wav to aac with libfdk_aac is giving me a shorter file, and using aac it turns out longer. How can I preserve ...
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Element exceeds containing master element ending
I am using ffmpeg to a mkv to dash format file using the following:
ffmpeg -i test.mkv -c:v copy -c:a aac -sn -f dash test.mpd
then will print some error, and some audio segment files will lost some ...
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Trying to convert WAV to HE-AACv2
so I've been trying to figure out how to convert WAVs into HE-AACv2, and nothing seems to be working at all. When I get an output file, it's corrupted. When I don't, it's always some vague error that ...
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I can't tag my AAC files with meta-data; what can I do instead?
I have an AAC file which I want to tag with information (artist, title, track number, album title etc.) ; unfortunately - it seems AAC does not support most of these tags, and tagger apps refuse to ...
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Keeping metadata and album art
I'm trying to convert aac 320kbps to mp3 320kbps but keeping album art and meta data bc I just want to convert the file extension. Is there a way to keep meta data and album art while converting?
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ffmpeg with libfdk_aac: AAC-HE-V2 profile doesn't work for mono sound?
Whenever I use ffmpeg with libfdk_aac to convert a piece of audio to AAC, I noticed the aac_he_v2 profile does not work if the source audio is mono. For example:
ffmpeg -i mono.wav -c:a libfdk_aac -...
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How can most apps play AAC for free?
Web says that AAC is not a free format, and decoding software must pay the fee. I have downloaded a sample AAC file, and tried playing it with free apps. On Android, Google Files, VLC, and Musicolet ...
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Decoding aac to PCM in ffmpeg introduces noise in the raw PCM audio
I have a .mp4 file generated with ffmpeg as follows.
ffmpeg -y -i video_extended.mp4 -itsoffset 00:00:04.00 -i output5-1.wav -map 0:0 -map 1:0 -c:v copy -c:a aac -ac 6 -ar 48000 -b:a 128k -async 1 ...
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Transcoding multichannel audio to AAC failing
I’m having issues transcoding multichannel audio to AAC.
Depending on the source material I either define a speaker layout/channel order and write that into the FMT chunk of an RF64 .wav (e.g. L R C) ...
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aac files do not show metadata in explorer
Audio files that appear .aac per the extension will not show information in file explorer in the "Artist", "Title", etc columns when the folder is setup as an "audio" ...
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Can I increase audio gain in a Matroksa file without recoding?
I have a Matroska container with some video stream, some subtitles stream and an AAC audio stream. Now, the audio's gain/volume is too low, relative to other media files I play, and I want to increase ...
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