[FFmpeg-user] MP4s (and M4As) for music

Paul B Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Sun Jun 8 20:49:21 EEST 2025


On Sun, Jun 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM Mark Filipak <
markfilipak.imdb-at-gmail.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:

> On 08/06/2025 13.31, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM Mark Filipak <
> > markfilipak.imdb-at-gmail.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> >
> >> For AAC encoding of pcm_s16le, what command should I use?
> >>
> >> I want archival quality.
> >>
> >
> > In other circles, archival quality means lossless, thus FLAC and not AAC.
>
> FLAC is not a standard. I don't trust that it will be around in the future.
>


https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9639/



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> Is there no so-called 'placebo' setting for AAC?
>

Nope.


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