| Original author(s) | Menno Bakker and others |
|---|---|
| Initial release | October 9, 2001 |
| Stable release | 1.30
/ April 28, 2020 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Encoder |
| License | LGPL 2.1 |
| Website | sourceforge |
| Original author(s) | Menno Bakker, Nero AG and others |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2000 (FAAD1) |
| Stable release | 2.10.0
/ October 20, 2020 |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Decoder |
| License | GNU General Public License version 2 or later |
| Website | sourceforge |
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 MP4 metadata tags. The encoder and decoder is compatible with standard-compliant audio applications using one or more of these object types and facilities.[1] It also supports Digital Radio Mondiale.[2]
FAAC and FAAD2, being distributed in C source code form, can be compiled on various platforms and are distributed free of charge. FAAD2 is free software. FAAC contains some code which is published as Free Software, but as a whole it is only distributed under a proprietary license.
FAAC was originally written by Menno Bakker.[3]
- ^ "Freeware Advanced Audio Coder". ohloh.net. Archived from the original on 2009-06-23. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
- ^ AudioCoding.com. "FAAC". Retrieved 2009-11-03.
- ^ FAAC (2001-09-04). "SCM Repositories – faac – README". SF.net. Retrieved 2009-11-03.