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1 | ========================================================================== |
2 | fdkaac - command line frontend encoder for libfdk-aac |
3 | ========================================================================== |
4 | |
5 | Prerequisites |
6 | ------------- |
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7 | You need libfdk-aac. |
8 | On Posix environment, you will also need GNU gettext (for iconv.m4) and |
9 | GNU autoconf/automake. |
10 | |
11 | How to build on Posix environment |
12 | --------------------------------- |
13 | First, you need to build libfdk-aac and install on your system. |
14 | Once you have done it, the following will do the task. |
15 | (MinGW build can be done the same way, and doesn't require gettext/iconv) |
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16 | |
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17 | $ autoreconf -i |
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18 | $ ./configure && make && make install |
19 | |
20 | How to build on MSVC |
21 | -------------------- |
22 | First you have to extract libfdk-aac source here, so that directory tree will |
23 | look like the following: |
24 | +- fdk-aac ---+-documentation |
25 | | +-libAACdec |
26 | | +-libAACenc |
27 | | : |
28 | +- m4 |
29 | +- missings |
30 | +- MSVC |
31 | +- src |
32 | |
33 | MSVC solution for Visual Studio 2010 is under MSVC directory. |
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34 | |
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35 | Available input format |
36 | ---------------------- |
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37 | WAV, RF64, CAF, RAW, upto 32bit int / 64bit float format is supported. |
38 | Metadata in CAF info chunk can be read and copied to the resulting m4a. |
39 | This is especially useful and works well when you pipe from ffmpeg via CAF. |
40 | For example, you can copy tag from original "foo.flac" to "foo.m4a" |
41 | through the following pipeline: |
42 | |
43 | $ ffmpeg -i foo.flac -f caf - | fdkaac -m3 - -o foo.m4a |
44 | |
45 | Since FDK AAC encoder is implemented based on fixed point integer, |
46 | encoder itself handles 16bit input only. |
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47 | Therefore, when feeding non-integer input, be careful so that input doesn't |
48 | exceed 0dBFS to avoid hard clips. |
49 | You might also want to apply dither/noise shape beforehand when your input |
50 | has higher resolution. |
51 | |
52 | Note that fdkaac doesn't automatically resample for you |
53 | when input samplerate is not supported by AAC spec. |
54 | |
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55 | Tagging Options |
56 | --------------- |
57 | Generic tagging options like --tag, --tag-from-file, --long-tag allows you |
58 | to set arbitrary tags. |
59 | Available tags and their fcc (four char code) for --tag and --tag-from-file |
60 | can be found at http://code.google.com/p/mp4v2/wiki/iTunesMetadata |
61 | |
62 | For tags such as Artist where first char of fcc is copyright sign, |
63 | you can skip first char and just say like --tag="ART:Foo Bar" or |
64 | --tag-from-file=lyr:/path/to/your/lyrics.txt |
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65 | |
66 | Currently, --tag-from-file just stores file contents into m4a without any |
67 | character encoding / line terminater conversion. |
68 | Therefore, only use UTF-8 (without BOM) when setting text tags by this option. |
69 | |
70 | On the other hand, --tag / --long-tag (and other command line arguments) are |
71 | converted from locale character encoding to UTF-8 on Posix environment. |
72 | On Windows, command line arguments are always treated as Unicode. |
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73 | |
74 | Tagging using JSON |
75 | ------------------ |
76 | With --tag-from-json, fdkaac can read JSON file and set tags from it. |
77 | By default, tags are assumed to be in the root object(dictionary) like this: |
78 | |
79 | { |
80 | "title": "No Expectations", |
81 | "artist": "The Rolling Stones", |
82 | "album": "Beggars Banquet", |
83 | "track": 2 |
84 | } |
85 | |
86 | In this case, you can simply specify the filename like: |
87 | --tag-from-json=/path/to/json |
88 | |
89 | If the object containing tags is placed somewhere else, you can optionally |
90 | specify the path of the object with dotted notation. |
91 | |
92 | { |
93 | "format" : { |
94 | "filename" : "Middle Curse.flac", |
95 | "nb_streams" : 1, |
96 | "format_name" : "flac", |
97 | "format_long_name" : "raw FLAC", |
98 | "start_time" : "N/A", |
99 | "duration" : "216.146667", |
100 | "size" : "11851007.000000", |
101 | "bit_rate" : "438628.000000", |
102 | "tags" : { |
103 | "ALBUM" : "Scary World Theory", |
104 | "ARTIST" : "Lali Puna", |
105 | "DATE" : "2001", |
106 | "DISCID" : "9208CC0A", |
107 | "TITLE" : "Middle Curse", |
108 | "TRACKTOTAL" : "10", |
109 | "track" : "2" |
110 | } |
111 | } |
112 | } |
113 | |
114 | In this example, tags are placed under the object "format.tags". |
115 | ("format" is a child of the root, and "tags" is a child of the "format"). |
116 | In this case, you can say: |
117 | --tag-from-json=/path/to/json?format.tags |
118 | |
119 | For your information, ffprobe of ffmpeg project (or avprobe of libav) can |
120 | output media information/metadata in json format like this. |
121 | |
122 | Note that not all tags can be read/written this way. |