Fast(er) transcoding from aac to mp3.

[Shevek]

On 18 March 2011 14:29, James Cook <james.cook at bluewin.ch> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a free AAC(ADTS) to AAC converter - to play on an
> ipod (yes I know). Better quality than AAC to MP3 conversion?
>

No need to convert, just remux using ffmpeg and the -absf aac_adtstoasc option:

ffmpeg -i input.aac -vn -acodec copy -absf aac_adtstoasc output.mp4

The latest bundled ffmpeg in mplayer-win32 handles this:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayer-win32/files/FFmpeg/git-c9e16a9/

HTH

Shevek