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FAAC

Version:

1.29

Release date:

Thursday, 25 September, 2008

Home:

http://www.audiocoding.com/

License:

Interface:

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

KO Myung-Hun

FAAC (Freeware Advanced Audio (AAC) Decoder) is a codec for AAC audio formats.

The AAC format is a lossy encoding format audio files (ie with loss of quality) rival of the popular MP3.

It was developed by the Fraunhofer Institute - creator of' MP3 - with the aim of achieving maximum efficiency, reducing the size of the audio tracks on the one hand and improving the quality of play on the other.

This format has several advantages than MP3, since it introduces very advanced technologies including:

CHANNEL SURROUND
HUFFMAN CODING
COUPLING
PREDICTION
QUANTIZATION and NOISE CONTROL LOOP
SBR (Spectral Band Replication)
BITSTREAM MULTIPLEXING

This software is distributed in two modes:

as compressed package that you have to download and manually install; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too;
as RPM package; you can install it using your favorite rpm package manager, that will take care to download and install both the software and its prerequisites.

Choose the installation mode that you prefer. Please note that not all the versions are available in both the installation modes.

Installation with rpm

This program is installable using the rpm package manager. See below for the install string. Required prerequisites are automatically processed by the package manager and, if needed, downloaded and installed.

faac-1.29.9.2-1.oc00 (09/10/2019)

Repository: Netlabs stable

install with ANPM or running the command:
```
yum install faac
```
manually download as ZIP file package:
http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/zip/faac-1_29_9_2-1_oc00.zip

faac-devel-1.29.9.2-1.oc00 (09/10/2019)

Repository: Netlabs stable (note: development files, not needed by the end user)

install with ANPM or running the command:
```
yum install faac-devel
```

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder, better if in PATH. See below for download link(s).

Following is a list of prerequisites that you have to manually install in order to have the program working:

kLIBC / GCC Runtime Library

You can install the prerequisites with rpm running the following string in a command line:

yum install libc libgcc1 libssp libstdc++6 libstdc++ libsupc++6 libsupc++ libgcc-fwd

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

FAAC v. 1.29.9.2 (9/10/2019)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/mm/faac-1.29.9.2.zip
FAAC v. 1.28 (23/1/2017)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/mm/faac-1.28.zip
FAAC v. 1.26 (26/9/2008)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/mm/faac-1.26.zip