Faac (1) Linux Manual Page

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 [at] audiocoding.com>.

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

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