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FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder
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philistine
· 2026-07-01 Wed 22:47 UTC ·
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On a microcontroller doing nothing else sure. But on a phone, a tablet, a laptop, you absolutely want hardware decode to preserve your battery life.
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nulld3v
· 2026-07-02 Thu 01:45 UTC ·
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That's their point though. Basically no modern phone/laptop/tablet other than Apple offloads audio decoding (of any codec) to hardware. You can check this on Android phones by installing the Codec Info app.
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cogman10
· 2026-07-02 Thu 03:01 UTC ·
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Audio decode is extremely cheap. It's true that a hardware implementation will be more efficient, but really not a whole lot more.