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FAAC(1)                    Free Advanced Audio Coder                   FAAC(1)

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). 1.26 2007-10-11 FAAC(1)

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