>I don't know why the manual for pacpl states the default value is 300 when it seems to be 128K. As you probably already know, the -ab option in ffmpeg specifies the bitrate.
>I found and tried a fix mentioned on the ubuntu forums, but it didn't work for me:
>Here is a fix for the "encode failed with exit status: 256" error message.
>
>I was getting the "encode failed with exit status: 256" error message when trying to convert flac to m4a to use on my >ipod. The problem was that pacpl is passing the wrong command line options to ffmpeg, as the --verbose option >reveals (see output below). The fix is to edit line 2036 of /usr/bin/pacpl to read
>
>case /mp4|m4a|m4b/ { return "-title \"$tag_name{title}\" -track \"$tag_name{track}\" -author \"$tag_name{artist}\" ->album \"$tag_name{album}\" \"$tag_name{comment}\" -year \"$tag_name{year}\""; }
>
>(all one line). ffmpeg is expecting single dashes for options, "author" instead of "artist", and has no genre field. I've >filed a bug report.
Hello, I think maybe I'm suffering the same bug.
I'm facing the issue also going flac -> aac
> I'm having trouble encoding aac's from my flac files. I believe there is a bug.
I've tried the following:
$ pacpl --to aac -r -o flac --outdir /tmp /home/discord/ Music/flac/
Converting: [01 - Air - Do The Joy.flac] -> [aac] encode failed with exit status: 256
> Also note that the aacqual option does not seem to work:
$ pacpl --to aac --aacqual 196 -r -V -o flac --outdir /tmp --dryrun /home/discord/ Music/flac/
debug: ffmpeg -y -i "/tmp/Björk- Debut-12- Play_Dead. 9261.wav" -ab 128.k -ar 44100 -ac 2 "/tmp/Björk- Debut-12- Play_Dead. aac"
removed temporary file: /tmp/Björk- Debut-12- Play_Dead. 9261.wav
Converting: [07 Moon 83.flac] -> [aac]
debug: flac -f -d "/home/ discord/ Music/flac/ B52's/07 Moon 83.flac" -o "/tmp/07 Moon 83.24947.wav"
debug: ffmpeg -y -i "/tmp/07 Moon 83.24947.wav" -ab 128.k -ar 44100 -ac 2 "/tmp/07 Moon 83.aac"
removed temporary file: /tmp/07 Moon 83.24947.wav
$ pacpl --to aac --aacqual 450 -r -V -o flac --outdir /tmp --dryrun /home/discord/ Music/flac/
>I don't know why the manual for pacpl states the default value is 300 when it seems to be 128K. As you probably already know, the -ab option in ffmpeg specifies the bitrate.
>I found and tried a fix mentioned on the ubuntu forums, but it didn't work for me:
>Here is a fix for the "encode failed with exit status: 256" error message. name{title} \" -track \"$tag_ name{track} \" -author \"$tag_ name{artist} \" ->album \"$tag_ name{album} \" \"$tag_ name{comment} \" -year \"$tag_ name{year} \""; }
>
>I was getting the "encode failed with exit status: 256" error message when trying to convert flac to m4a to use on my >ipod. The problem was that pacpl is passing the wrong command line options to ffmpeg, as the --verbose option >reveals (see output below). The fix is to edit line 2036 of /usr/bin/pacpl to read
>
>case /mp4|m4a|m4b/ { return "-title \"$tag_
>
>(all one line). ffmpeg is expecting single dashes for options, "author" instead of "artist", and has no genre field. I've >filed a bug report.