Time for a new AAC guide?

jmig · Messages: 291 Registration: 10.14.2003

HE-AAC is being released, lots of things have changed since June 2002.

carcrazed4life · Messages: 2,587 Registration: 06.03.2003

Where is the old guide? ;) For a start you might want to read the Wiki on which is a user knowledge base about all audio formats, also AAC and MP4.

b18cls1 · Messages: 348 Registration: 10.29.2003

perhaps there should be nero and quicktime mentioned too (and that aacmachine has problems with multichannel) also mentioning the 3ivx splitter would be great...

Nillaice · Messages: 422 Registration: 09.23.2001

hmm.. I haven't completely read up about it so my info might not be complete, but there shouldn't be any problems on the decoding side with coreaac and the next 3ivx release, the splitter and playback filters are already available today, but that leaves an encoder outside of Nero missing. Is there a way to pipe decoded AC3 data to an AAC encoder without intermediary files now?

M3power321 · Messages: 282 Registration: 10.01.2003

hmm... so what's the best encoder then, from a quality standpoint? Nero?

extremeM3 · Messages: 805 Registration: 03.11.2003

Actually, will HE AAC make an impact on movie-encoding? It's optimized for low bitrates and not high quality, but is the quality provided at its optimal bitrates on par with, for example, MP3 VBR 160kbps? No matter how efficient it is, if it can't generate quality above that level I'd stick to using Ogg because most of my rips are 2CD's and I can afford the extra bits to give to the soundtrack.