FAAC is an open-source, dependency-free AAC encoder aimed at embedded and pipeline use cases where footprint and throughput matter as much as quality.
FAAC is free software, licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later:
FAAC - Freeware Advanced Audio Coder
Copyright (C) 1999-2001, Menno Bakker
Copyright (C) 2002-2017, Krzysztof Nikiel
Copyright (C) 2004, Dan Villiom P. Christiansen
Copyright (C) 2005-2026, Fabian Greffrath
Copyright (C) 2026, Nils Schimmelmann
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
Important: The use of this software may require the payment of patent royalties. You need to consider this issue before you start building derivative works. We are not warranting or indemnifying you in any way for patent royalities! YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS!
- Make sure you have recent versions of meson and ninja installed.
- cd to FAAC source dir
- Run:
mkdir -p build cd build meson setup .. meson install