[MEncoder-users] aac encoding with lavc

[Fredrik Eriksson]

Hello.

On 28-09-2006, at 10:32, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 9/27/06, Fredrik Eriksson <feffese at yahoo.se> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> For a while now it has been possible to encode aac audio with -oac
>> lavc. However, the man page still doesn't say anything about it.
>> Wouldn't it be good to update the man page?
>
> This is a problem that is hard to solve, because there both are few
> information about these, and there likely are a lot of things to
> cover. In addition, MPlayer/Mencoder's man page is already gigantic
> (bigger than gcc's) so it wouldn't help to add a whole lot more
> (considering the fact that ppl don't like to RTFM).

problem indeed. Wouldn't it be a good idea to split the man pages for  
mplayer and mencoder? that would at least make the man page for  
mplayer much smaller. Maybe it would be possible to split the  
mencoder man page in two as well, one with basic mencoder usage, and  
one with advanced encoding options?

>
>> I'm a little curious if
>> there are more options to the aac encoding than just bitrate...
>
> Yes, probably, but you'd have to look at lavc's code.

I'll take a look...

>
> As a side note, it should be possible to encode with aac directly
> though mencoder. This is documented in our manpage.
>
> Guillaume

yes, that's true, it's just that I have to ask when I find a  
undocumentet feature :)

Fredrik Eriksson