Freeware Advanced Audio Coder

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Project Summary

The FAAC project includes the AAC encoder FAAC and decoder FAAD2. It supports several MPEG-4 object types (LC, Main, LTP, HE AAC, PS) and file formats (ADTS AAC, raw AAC, MP4), multichannel and gapless en/decoding as well as MP4 metadata tags. The codecs are compatible with standard-compliant audio applications using one or more of these profiles.

In a Nutshell, Freeware Advanced Audio Coder...

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has had 1,851 commits made by 59 contributors
representing 66,612 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with a low number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a average size development team
with increasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 17 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in December, 1999
ending with its most recent commit about 1 month ago

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