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Comment by SideQuark | original | FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder
[−]SideQuark · 2026-07-02 Thu 01:21 UTC · link
It’s not that cynical. The author didn’t test on the most common rate in use, so it would be ludicrous for any serious project to wholesale replace a decades old working pipeline with it. It makes perfect sense to wait till due diligence is done.
[−]ant6n · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:47 UTC · link
It's not cynical. It's dismissive. Especially given that these codecs work in the frequency domain anyway.

>>...use 48Khz if you want the best quality.

>Yet most of the worlds audio is 44KHz...