AAC codec

Audio codec that outputs Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) data. AAC is one of the most used lossy audio compression formats. It is the successor to the MP3 compression format with improved encoding. The format is proprietary and requires the purchase of a license for commercial use.

More detailed information about the AAC format can be found, for example, at this link: Advanced Audio Coding

The filter is implemented on the basis of the CTransformFilter class and uses the libfaac library (Freeware Advanced Audio Coder library) for compression.

32- and 64-bit versions of the AAC codec are available.

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Input format

The AAC codec accepts a 16-bit audio stream in PCM format as input.

majortype MEDIATYPE_Audio
subtype MEDIASUBTYPE_PCM
formattype FORMAT_WaveFormatEx

The required number of channels (from one to 8), as well as the number of frames per second of the input stream (from 8000 to 96000) can be specified via the filter control interface or the property page.

Parameter Possible values
Number of channels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Samples per second 96000, 88200, 64000, 48000, 44100, 32000, 24000, 22050, 16000, 12000, 11025, 8000

Output format

On the output, the AAC codec outputs a compressed AAC stream.

majortype MEDIATYPE_Audio
subtype MEDIASUBTYPE_AAC
formattype FORMAT_WaveFormatEx
wFormatTag 0xFF

Compression parameters and additional characteristics of the output stream can be set using the control interface on the filter and the property page.

Property page

Limitations of the free version of the filter

Limitiation of the free version is the same as for other DirectShow filters – only one copy of the ACC codec can be created by a process.

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free x86 version
free x64 version
interface description file (aac.idl)