FFmpeg is widely used in professional content production for file-based transcoding as well as live use cases. Although FFmpeg supports most video formats natively, there is no easy way to make use of MainConcept's industry-leading and professional codec libraries within an FFmpeg workflow.
The MainConcept plug-ins for FFmpeg are a convenient way to solve this problem because they seamlessly integrate into FFmpeg.
Features
The MainConcept xHE-AAC Encoder plug-in for FFmpeg offers the following functionality:
- Use Fraunhofer's industry-leading xHE-AAC software encoder natively in FFmpeg by using a MainConcept plug-in
- Support for xHE-AAC as well as legacy Low Complexity AAC, High-Efficiency AAC v1 and High-Efficiency AAC v2 audio formats
- Support for on-demand (file-to-file) and live xHE-AAC encoding workflows
- Support for on-demand (file-to-file) and live legacy AAC encoding workflows
- Best-in-class audio featuring bitrates of 12-500 kb/s for stereo
- Encoding for MPEG-DASH and Apple HLS compliant streaming use-cases
- Includes the latest generation of the AAC codec family, xHE-AAC:
- Seamless audio bitrate switching for MPEG-DASH and Apple HLS over a wide bitrate range
- Mandatory loudness and dynamic range control for consistent playback loudness
- Improved quality at lower bitrates on speech content and improved stereo imaging
- Seamless audio bitrate switching for MPEG-DASH and Apple HLS
- xHE-AAC Decoding supported in the latest Apple, Android, Amazon, and Microsoft operating systems
- Seamlessly works with other MainConcept Video Encoder plug-ins for FFmpeg and FFmpeg's built-in video encoders
- Fully compliant with FFmpeg's built-in MP4 multiplexer, incl. fragmented MP4