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

[Nico Sabbi]

Grozdan Nikolov wrote:

>Ok, here's what I did so far. I downloaded the latest version of MPlayer today 
>from SVN (MEncoder SVN-r23784). I then downloaded the Van Helsing and Hellboy 
>samples from the FTP server and encoded them to H.264+AAC 4 channels audio. 
>No distortions AT ALL! I then encoded ~70 seconds of a DVD here (War Of The 
>Worlds) which used to have a lot of distortions in its audio at the beginning 
>when using AAC... Again no distortions AT ALL here
>
>the audio command line parameters I used are
>
>-oac faac -faacopts mpeg=4:quality=100:object=2 -channels 4
>
>I'm using FAAC 1.25 here (default from my distro). So, did anything changed 
>recently in MEncoder? 
>
no

>Since I'm not hearing any distortions anymore I assume 
>something changed. I can upload the War Of The Worlds sample so you can hear 
>for yourself that the distortions are gone now
>  
>
read Pierre's answers: there is some artefact in his samples and something
has broken in the meanwhile