AAC format - dalmatele/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial GitHub Wiki

esds atom

This atom is a 2 byte-atom

5 bits: object type
4 bits: frequency index
if (frequency index == 15)
    24 bits: frequency
4 bits: channel configuration
1 bit: frame length flag
1 bit: dependsOnCoreCoder
1 bit: extensionFlag

Object type can be:

0: Null
1: AAC Main
2: AAC LC (Low Complexity)
3: AAC SSR (Scalable Sample Rate)
4: AAC LTP (Long Term Prediction)
5: SBR (Spectral Band Replication)
6: AAC Scalable
7: TwinVQ
8: CELP (Code Excited Linear Prediction)
9: HXVC (Harmonic Vector eXcitation Coding)
10: Reserved
11: Reserved
12: TTSI (Text-To-Speech Interface)
13: Main Synthesis
14: Wavetable Synthesis
15: General MIDI
16: Algorithmic Synthesis and Audio Effects
17: ER (Error Resilient) AAC LC
18: Reserved
19: ER AAC LTP
20: ER AAC Scalable
21: ER TwinVQ
22: ER BSAC (Bit-Sliced Arithmetic Coding)
23: ER AAC LD (Low Delay)
24: ER CELP
25: ER HVXC
26: ER HILN (Harmonic and Individual Lines plus Noise)
27: ER Parametric
28: SSC (SinuSoidal Coding)
29: PS (Parametric Stereo)
30: MPEG Surround
31: (Escape value)
32: Layer-1
33: Layer-2
34: Layer-3
35: DST (Direct Stream Transfer)
36: ALS (Audio Lossless)
37: SLS (Scalable LosslesS)
38: SLS non-core
39: ER AAC ELD (Enhanced Low Delay)
40: SMR (Symbolic Music Representation) Simple
41: SMR Main
42: USAC (Unified Speech and Audio Coding) (no SBR)
43: SAOC (Spatial Audio Object Coding)
44: LD MPEG Surround
45: USAC

Frequent index can be:

0: 96000 Hz
1: 88200 Hz
2: 64000 Hz
3: 48000 Hz
4: 44100 Hz
5: 32000 Hz
6: 24000 Hz
7: 22050 Hz
8: 16000 Hz
9: 12000 Hz
10: 11025 Hz
11: 8000 Hz
12: 7350 Hz
13: Reserved
14: Reserved
15: frequency is written explictly

Channel can be:

0: Defined in AOT Specifc Config
1: 1 channel: front-center
2: 2 channels: front-left, front-right
3: 3 channels: front-center, front-left, front-right
4: 4 channels: front-center, front-left, front-right, back-center
5: 5 channels: front-center, front-left, front-right, back-left, back-right
6: 6 channels: front-center, front-left, front-right, back-left, back-right, LFE-channel
7: 8 channels: front-center, front-left, front-right, side-left, side-right, back-left, back-right, LFE-channel
8-15: Reserved

Frame length flag can be:

0: Each packet contains 1024 samples
1: Each packet contains 960 samples

See more in:

https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/Understanding_AAC

https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/MPEG-4_Audio

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3987850/mp4-atom-how-to-discriminate-the-audio-codec-is-it-aac-or-mp3

Too to check AAC header:

https://www.p23.nl/projects/aac-header/