faac mp4 encoding help please

Alucard · 2005-04-07 07:54:27

ok so here's my problem, I've got a nifty iPod, faac(stable),grip and gtkpod.

Now I've got grip and gtkpod working fine except that I'd like to use grip and faac to encode mp4 files to make my life easier (not having to manually enter metadata stuff)

the problem I guess is that faac as it is can not do mp4 files but only aac, I cant figure out how to use that with grip, because the mp4 options are apparently very good for metadata and all that.

I've spent a lot of time on this and have failed horribly, and need help

(the faac-devel I found on the forums doesn't really work that well it just says it's unstable and doesn't let me do anything)

JGC · 2005-04-07 21:55:20

Try installing sound-juicer and install the gst-plugins-faac plugin. Then run gnome-audio-profile-properties and hack a gstreamer pipe profile together to get things done. A good line would be:

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! faac name=enc

Next step, fire up sound-juicer, get CDDB or CD-Text for your CD and rip it using the new created profile.

Speek · 2005-04-07 22:02:53

Or recompile faad2 with the --with-mp4v2 configure option and then recompile faac. Faac will then have an option (-w) to produce mp4 files. Let me know if you need more info.

Alucard · 2005-04-08 04:04:28

Speek, please do give me more information, as I cant get faad2 to even compile (even the default one provided by abs)... it would help if abs did give me a working pkgbuild to work with

I'm workin at it still but if you have any ideas/pkgbuilds/pkgs please tell me

Speek · 2005-04-08 08:42:51

I can build FAAD2-2.0 from ABS (but the download link doesn't work, so you'll have to download the source code from audiocoding.com). But when I add --with-mp4v2 to configure it doesn't build. I also tried it in Slackware 10.1 and there it does work. Don't know why that is. Anyway I've uploaded the libmp4v2 files here: http://members.home.nl/w.speek/arch/libmp4v2.tar.bz2
If you put them in /usr/lib (not in libmp4v2 subdir) and then recompile faac in ABS, faac will have the -w switch. I tested this and it works.

Alucard · 2005-04-08 15:29:59

That still didn't work for me, I'm not sure why heh...

Though I may try re-installing arch to give myself something fresh to work with, maybe that will do it... maybe I screwed something over in arch along the way...

Speek · 2005-04-08 16:32:51

If you like you can try my FAAC package:
http://members.home.nl/w.speek/arch/faa … pkg.tar.gz
It will need the libmp4v2 files I posted before.

Alucard · 2005-04-08 16:53:23

the faac package worked fine, thanks for all the help Speek!

EDIT: I put the pkg in my repo mainly because I use it largely for personal use, in case I have to re-install arch, etc.

Alucard · 2005-04-08 19:54:02

Update: faac works fine now, but grip doesn't play nice, oh well encoding m4a/mp4 files by hand with faac is really easy

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