AAC decoder/encoder

[cvisors]

Hi everyone, just a quick question, does anyone know of an aac decoder or encoder that works under IRIX, as I prefer these to MP3.

Any ideas, or will I need to keep on encoding in mp3 in iTunes

[vegac]

Hmmm, I just found one for Linux
Maybe I'll try getting it running under Irix real quick...

Would you like that AAC player in a GTK environment or a command line? heh

[cvisors]

I tend to use mpg123 heaps, so command line would be good.

I have seen the one for linux, I havn't tried compiling it yet, I am still having a look to see if there is one that will work under IRIX.

Benjamin

[cvisors]

Well the one I found, looks like it runs as an XMMS plugin, so I don't know if it will work for me.

So to use this one It looks like I need to isntall XMMS, hmmm may just bite the bullet and give it a go.

Benjamin

[cvisors]

Ack!

I have mips pro 7.2.1 here, and when trying to compile libsndfile which is needed, it bombs out with this:

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cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -c pcm.c  -DPIC -o .libs/pcm.lo
"float_cast.h", line 173: error(1011): unrecognized preprocessing directive
        #warning "Don't have the functions lrint() and lrintf()."
         ^

"float_cast.h", line 174: error(1011): unrecognized preprocessing directive
        #warning "Replacing these functions with a standard C cast."
         ^

2 errors detected in the compilation of "pcm.c".
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)


No Joy, any ideas?

Benjamin

[vegac]

Well unfortunately, after fighting with it for a bit to compile it now just spits out error messages for all eternity when trying to play a file...

but atleast I got it to compile, right?

[cvisors]

But it it compiles it must be fine

Oh well I may just have to stick with MP3 for my encoding on my mac.

One thing I do like about Mac OS X is that it supports NFS, so all my 40 gig or so of MP3s are easy to share with all of my machines.


Benjamin

[vegac]

True, but I'd still like to try getting it to work...

Maybe tomorrow when I'm a bit more awake and all

[cvisors]

Thanks heaps, I may be just a UNIX admin, working in another field at the moment, but I can't code to save my own life so your help here is great.


Benjamin

[nekonoko]

I'd love AAC playback as well as I'm also a huge fan after iTunes 4 I've already encoded a good portion of my CD collection to the new format.

[vegac]

Well, I'm going to spend a couple of hours today hopefully getting this command-line player working, so POSSIBLY soon we'll have a nice lil aac player.

Personally I've never used the format, but hey

[cvisors]

To my ears, AAC seems to sound better than a MP3 at the same bitrate, and they are about the same size, I have been playing with it, since I got iTunes 4 on my mac, so if it is possible to play these under IRIX it would be fantastic.


Benjamin

[nekonoko]

Yep, I have all sorts of room on my iPod now that I've replaced the larger MP3 files with AAC.

[somecodemonkey]

i personally use oggs since they are smaller and usually better quality at lower bit rates so 96 kb/s can sound as good as a 128kb/s mp3 if encoded right.

I used mp3 only a short while but switched to ogg and used acc for a little bit simple because the university doesn;t like students have mp3 files on machine connected to the network and do look for shared ones at time but of course the guys who scan it can;t tell their asshole from their elbow so think don;t search for ogg or aac

[nekonoko]

ogg doesn't work on iPods so that's just not an option for me personally