AAC and MP4 encoding libraries?

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I wrote a simple screen recorder but after writing it I realized that libvpx is kind of painfully slow. Are there libraries for the following?

  • AAC encoding (e.g. bindings to CoreAudio/MediaFoundation/libfdk-aac).
  • MP4 muxing.

I'm guessing the answer is no, but I thought I'd ask here just in case.

2

I have seen there are a bunch of wrappers for ffmpeg. I haven't tried any of them but it might be worth taking a look at least.

3

Libvpx has settings for real-time encoding -- VPX_DL_REALTIME. It ruins motion prediction quality and causes a lot of blur, but it's faster.

4

Unfortunately in my experience libvpx is terribly slow, borderline unusable, when compared to h264, though I've tested only CRF modes.

5

This mirrors my experience. VP9 is unbearable even with realtime, and VP8 is bearable, but compared to x264 the speed and quality are both much worse. But I guess it's possible that I'm just using it wrong.

Edit: nvm, thanks, @kornel, I was already using deadline=1 but i also had to set cpu_used=6 to have any effect. it's still nowhere near as good as x264 but it's enough for now.