<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>I wrote a new aac audio encoder module for VLC. It uses the fdk-aac library. Attached is the patch to VLC that has the new module and the addition of a new feature for audio encoders that need their internal buffer flushed at EOF.</div><div><br></div><div>It also requires a small patch to the fdk-aac library to add support for WG4 channel mapping (it should be committed to their git shortly).</div><div><br></div><div>What works:</div><div>LC, HE and HEv2 with constant bitrate.</div><div>LC and HE with variable bitrate. (HEv2 variable bitrate does not seem to be supported by the lib atm).</div><div>It can also create the LD and ELD profiles but I do not have a way to test them.</div><div>I have run tests with stereo and 5.1 and channel mapping appears to be correct.</div><div>The module supports 7.1 but the library does not … Maybe someone wants to tackle a fix for the lib.</div><div><br></div><div>Comments are welcome …</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>-- </div><div>Sergio M. Ammirata, Ph.D.</div></div></div></body></html>