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FAAC

FAAC (Freeware Advanced Audio Coder) is a software project which includes the AAC encoder FAAC and decoder FAAD2. It supports MPEG-2 AAC as well as MPEG-4 AAC. It supports several MPEG-4 Audio object types (LC, Main, LTP for encoding and SBR, PS, ER, LD for decoding), file formats (ADTS AAC, raw AAC, MP4), multichannel and gapless encoding/decoding and…

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Available in
English
License
GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or later
Original authors
Menno Bakker and others
Platform
Cross-platform
Release
October 9, 2001 (2001-10-09)
Repository
github.com/knik0/faac

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FAAC encoder

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FAAC

Nodes54
Edges53
Triples88
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.037037
Components1

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FAAC

Top relations

related to Alternatives for AAC encoding in Unix-like operating systems · 23
FAAC → AAC, Android, Android VisualOn AAC, Apple's AAC, FDK AAC, FFmpeg, FFmpeg's, High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding, It, Konstantin Shishkov, LGPL, Libav, Linux/Unix, Mac OS, Nero, Nero AAC Codec, PCM, The, The AAC, The FDK AAC
related to FAAC encoder · 23
FAAC → AAC, Apple Inc, Apple's, CD-DA, Digital Radio Mondiale, Freeware Advanced Audio Coder, HE-AAC, HE-AACv2, It, LC, Long Term Prediction, Low Complexity, LTP, Main, MPEG-2 AAC/MPEG-4 AAC, PS, Some, The, The FAAC, The MPEG-2 AAC
related to Licensing · 20
FAAC → Code, Commercial, FAAD2, GNU Lesser General Public, GPL, GPLv2, ISO, ISO MPEG-4, ISO/IEC, LGPL, License, MPEG-2 NBC/MPEG-4 Audio, MPEG-4 Part, Nero AG, Older, Only, Reference, The, The ISO MPEG-4, Those
related to Other software · 12
FAAC → AAC, Avidemux, CDex, Console, FAAD, FAAD2, FAAD2Music, FFmpeg, GStreamer, MPlayer, Music Player Daemon, VLC
Available in · 1
FAAC → English
License · 1
FAAC → GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or later
Original authors · 1
FAAC → Menno Bakker and others
Platform · 1
FAAC → Cross-platform
Release · 1
FAAC → October 9, 2001 (2001-10-09)
Repository · 1
FAAC → github.com/knik0/faac

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aac encoder faad2 software audio mpeg-4 decoder object code supports also license types free sbr encoding version iso mpeg-2 used

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
FAACAvailable inEnglish1.00infobox
FAACLicenseGNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or later1.00infobox
FAACOriginal authorsMenno Bakker and others1.00infobox
FAACPlatformCross-platform1.00infobox
FAACReleaseOctober 9, 2001 (2001-10-09)1.00infobox
FAACRepositorygithub.com/knik0/faac1.00infobox
FAACStable release2.1 / August 18, 2026; 6 days ago (2026-08-18)1.00infobox
FAACTypeEncoder1.00infobox
FAACWebsitesourceforge.net/projects/faac/ faac.sourceforge.net1.00infobox
FAACWritten inC1.00infobox
FAACrelated to Alternatives for AAC encoding in Unix-like operating systemsLinux/Unix0.60section
FAACrelated to Alternatives for AAC encoding in Unix-like operating systemsAAC0.60section

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