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

[Nico Sabbi]

Nico Sabbi wrote:

>Nico Sabbi wrote:
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>>Grozdan Nikolov wrote:
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>>>Hmmm, sorry if I may sound a bit "pushy" but is this expected to be fixed 
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>>as soon as I (or whoever precedes me) find some time
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>as far as I can hear the distortions are simply channels mismatches:
>the channel ordering for aac is unspecified (IIRC), but surely
>it's not the same as the one that mplayer uses (ac3), so if you
>use -af pan to remap the channels you should hear all right.
>In order to do a fair comparison can you try to encode one of the 
>trailer samples in incoming (e.g. VanHelsing.ts, but there are others
>with >2 channels) and report what you find?
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btw, I hear the same distortions in the output produced by faac