The URL above describes what I believe is a variation of my problem. I have VOB ready MP2 files that I need to convert to AAC/MP4. First step is to unpack the audio to WAV using ffmpeg, then run faac -b 64 -o blat.aac blat.wav In some cases this hangs forever, pegging CPU close to 100%. On the other hand, if I remove '-b 64' it doesn't hang (defaults to 128 I believe). I've experienced this on Ubuntu as well as on Gentoo, so not related to the emerge/portage. It is a bug in the program. I'm flagging in case the bug is fixed in a more recent version of faac that you may want to push to stable sooner rather than later. BTW -- THE ABOVE URL NOTES WORK AROUNDS. I'm mentioning this in case someone else hits this bug and stumbles across this bug report looking for a clue how to work around the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run faac against some wav files with -b 64 option 2. 3. Actual Results: cpu pegged close to 100% faac hangs Expected Results: faac should have proceeded with the encoding Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ dev-lang/python: 2.1.3-r1, 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr clamav crypt ctype cups curl dba dbm dga directfb divx4linux doc dv dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd fam fame flac foomaticdb fortran freetds gb gcj gd gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gnomedb gnuplot gnustep gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jack java javascript jikes jpeg junit libg++ libwww lzo mad maildir matrox mikmod mjpeg mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mp3 mp4live mpeg mysql ncurses nentwork nls odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php plotutils png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline real rtc ruby samba sasl scanner sdl session slang soap speex spell sqlite sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l videos vorbis wavelan wxwindows xanim xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xv xvid xvmc zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
Hi, I'm using a CVS snapshot from 18-10-2004 which doesn't have this problem. It's available from audiocoding.com. Only minor changes to the ebuild are necessary ...
This should be fixed in faac-1.24-r4. Sorry about the wait.
