[FFmpeg-user] u8 sample format is incompatible with aac

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Tarun singhal <tsinghal18 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Oh! Thats a bad news for me. Actually I want to encode a particular media
> file for thin-end devices and I want to choose the audio resolution as u8
> rather than s16 and want to encode it as AAC only.

I am certainly no AAC expert but did you check the MPEG-4 audio specification if
it says anything about encoding u8?
I would have expected that AAC does not support such low resolutions.

Please do not top-post on FFmpeg mailing lists, Carl Eugen