[MEncoder-users] Does MEncoder has issues with AAC audio encoding?

[Pierre Catello]

2007/7/9, Grozdan Nikolov <microchip at chello.be>:
>
>
> I then tried to use only 2 channels for AAC, but still I get the same
> effect
> on both of the encodes. No matter which value I change (bitrate, mpeg
> version, etc) I still get these distortions. When doing a test run on
> these
> DVDs and encoding the audio to AC3 (one time with 2 channels, the other
> with
> 4 channels) or MP3, the sound is perfect - no distortions at all. It seems
> that only AAC is producing these distortions. I then dumped a minute of
> audio
> from one of the DVD to WAV and encoded it with FAAC - there are no
> distortions when doing this, so I guess MEncoder has some issues...


I also had these kind of issues encoding AAC with Mencoder :
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mencoder.user/5493/match=corrupted+aac


and I no longer use Mencoder for aac encoding (-oac copy and then FAAC) :-/
.

Pierre