glfs/multimedia/libdriv/faac.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
<!ENTITY faac-download-http "&sourceforge-repo;/faac/faac-&faac-version;.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY faac-download-ftp " ">
<!ENTITY faac-md5sum "c5dde68840cefe46532089c9392d1df0">
<!ENTITY faac-size "519 KB">
<!ENTITY faac-buildsize "20 MB">
<!ENTITY faac-time "0.4 SBU">
]>
<sect1 id="faac" xreflabel="FAAC-&faac-version;">
<?dbhtml filename="faac.html"?>
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<title>FAAC-&faac-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="faac">
<primary sortas="a-faac">faac</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title>Introduction to FAAC</title>
<para><application>FAAC</application> is an encoder for a lossy sound
compression scheme specified in MPEG-2 Part 7 and MPEG-4 Part 3 standards
and known as Advanced Audio Coding (AAC). This encoder is useful for
producing files that can be played back on iPod. Moreover, iPod does not
understand other sound compression schemes in video files.</para>
&lfs79_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&faac-download-http;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&faac-download-ftp;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download MD5 sum: &faac-md5sum;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download size: &faac-size;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Estimated disk space required: &faac-buildsize;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Estimated build time: &faac-time;</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para>Required patch: <ulink
url="&patch-root;/faac-&faac-version;-glibc_fixes-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">FAAC Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
<para>libmp4v2 from
<ulink url="http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/">mpeg4ip</ulink> (untested,
as of 2007-09-28, development of the project is stopped;
an internal version of the library is used if the external one
is not found).</para>
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
<ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/faac"/></para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of FAAC</title>
<para>Install <application>FAAC</application> by running the
following commands:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../faac-&faac-version;-glibc_fixes-1.patch &amp;&amp;
sed -i -e '/obj-type/d' -e '/Long Term/d' frontend/main.c &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>
<para>This package does not come with a test suite. However, basic
functionality can be tested by encoding a sample WAV file (the sample
file is installed by the <xref linkend="alsa-utils"/> package:</para>
<screen><userinput>./frontend/faac -o Front_Left.mp4 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Left.wav</userinput></screen>
<para>Then, decode the result using the <command>faad</command> program
from the <xref linkend="faad2"/> package and play back the decoded file
(requires the <command>aplay</command> program from the
<xref linkend="alsa-utils"/> package:</para>
<screen><userinput>faad Front_Left.mp4
aplay Front_Left.wav</userinput></screen>
<para><command>aplay</command> should identify the file as
<quote>Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo</quote>, and you
should hear the words <quote>front left</quote>.</para>
<para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
<!-- <para><command>./bootstrap</command>: This command runs GNU Autotools
to create the <command>configure</command> script and other required
build files.</para> -->
<!-- Note to editors: remove this sed if the new release re-enables the
option (look for "#if 0" near "case OBJTYPE_FLAG:", this is line
697 in frontend/main.c as of FAAC-1.26) or fixes the documentation
so that it doesn't mention the disabled option. -->
<para><command>sed -i ...</command>: This command removes documentation
for the <option>--obj-type</option> parameter from the
<command>faac --long-help</command> command output. This parameter
is already disabled in FAAC-&faac-version; due to sound quality issues
with object types other than <quote>Low Complexity</quote>.</para>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
<!-- 1.28: This is still broken, it causes a segfault. -->
<para><option>--enable-drm</option>: This option is supposed to enable
support for encoding files for
<ulink url="http://www.drm.org/">Digital Radio Mondiale</ulink>, but
actually breaks the base functionality of the package (e.g., the resulting
<command>faac</command> program produces files that cannot be decoded
by <xref linkend="faad2"/>, even if compiled with DRM support).
Don't use it.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Other AAC encoders</title>
<para>The quality of <application>FAAC</application> is not up
to par with the best AAC encoders currently available. Also, it only
supports AAC and not High Efficiency AAC (also known as aacPlus), which
provides better quality at low bitrates by means of using the
<quote>spectral band replication</quote> technology. There are the
following alternative programs for producing AAC and HE-AAC streams:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://www.nero.com/eng/nero-aac-codec.html">Nero AAC Codec</ulink>:
available only in the binary form, the command-line AAC and HE-AAC encoders
for Linux are in the same archive as the Windows application.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/26410.htm">3GPP
Enhanced aacPlus general audio codec</ulink>:
available in the source form, can encode only HE-AAC up to 48 kbps
out of the box, but the maximum bitrate can be changed by editing
the tuning table in the
<filename>FloatFR_sbrenclib/src/sbr_main.c</filename> file.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Note, however, that iPod supports only Low Complexity AAC profile,
which is the default in FAAC, but may not be the default in Nero AAC Encoder
and is completely unavailable in the 3GPP encoder.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="content">
<title>Contents</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>faac</seg>
<seg>libfaac.so and libmp4v2.so</seg>
<seg>None</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
<varlistentry id="faac-prog">
<term><command>faac</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>is a command-line AAC encoder.</para>
<indexterm zone="faac faac-prog">
<primary sortas="b-faac">faac</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libfaac">
<term><filename class='libraryfile'>libfaac.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>contains functions for encoding AAC streams.</para>
<indexterm zone="faac libfaac">
<primary sortas="c-libfaac">libfaac.so</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libmp4v2">
<term><filename class='libraryfile'>libmp4v2.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>contains functions for creating and manipulating MP4 files.</para>
<indexterm zone="faac libmp4v2">
<primary sortas="c-libmp4v2">libmp4v2.so</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>