This is the fastest way to create an ipod-playable m4b file. The “drawback” is that the codec is proprietary but this is how you’d put it, it is free and the most efficient in quality and encoding.
Fast Encoding from Wavpack (.ISO.WV, .WV) Audio Format on Linux
I wish I could post on a more regular basis these days, but the other things keep me off doing so… Anyway, I came across another need of conversion between formats, this time from wavpack (.iso.wv). Wavpack is an audio…
[Solved] Fast High Quality Encoding of ape Format into Lame mp3 or Nero m4a on Linux
The lossless2lossy.sh script does not give enough good functions to split *.ape files into tracks. The below solves the problem in Fedora 12.
Fixing Wrong or Different Frame Rate of a Video File and Container (The Right Way)
The problem is seen well when you get video file information with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg with aac support in Fedora 12
I have found a pretty helpful article for ffmpeg recompile: http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/tech/2009/11/recompiling-ffmpeg-for-fedora-12-to-add-faac-support.html . However, it looks like the instructions were incomplete.