Fraunhofer FDK AAC
| Developer(s) | Fraunhofer IIS |
| Release information | |
|---|---|
| Stable release | |
| Compatibility | |
| Operating system | Android, Linux |
| Additional information | |
| Use | Encoder |
| License | very liberal (NOTICE), but somehow considered non-free [1] |
| Website | Offical web page |
The Fraunhofer FDK AAC is a high-quality open-source AAC encoder library developed by Fraunhofer IIS. It was officially released for Android, but has been ported to other platforms.
Contents
MPEG-4 Audio Object Types
The library supports the following MPEG-4 AOTs:
| Object Type ID | Audio Object Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | AAC-LC | "AAC Profile" MPEG-2 Low-complexity (LC) combined with MPEG-4 Perceptual Noise Substitution (PNS) |
| 5 | HE-AAC | AAC LC + SBR (Spectral Band Replication) |
| 29 | HE-AAC v2 | AAC LC + SBR + PS (Parametric Stereo) |
| 23 | AAC-LD | "Low Delay Profile" used for real-time communication |
| 39 | AAC-ELD | Enhanced Low Delay |
Afterburner
Afterburner is "a type of analysis by synthesis algorithm which increases the audio quality but also the required processing power." Fraunhofer recommends to always activate this feature.
[lib]fdk-aac
The opencore-amr project maintains a source code distribution of the Fraunhofer library as fdk-aac, often packaged as libfdk-aac. It is distributed in a binary form in Debian (and Debian derivatives like Ubuntu) as libfdk-aac0.
aac-enc
fdk-aac includes a very basic command-line interface encoding utility, called aac-enc, that can encode to AAC from WAV.
Usage:
aac-enc [-r bitrate] [-t aot] [-a afterburner] [-s sbr] [-v vbr] in.wav out.aac
ffmpeg
libfdk-aac can be used with ffmpeg, but requires a custom build of ffmpeg.
avconv
libfdk-aac can be used with avconv, but requires a custom build of avconv.
