[alehel]

Refs #1230. Points 1, 2 and 4 are done; point 3 is deferred.

encode and FileEncoder now cover the crate's lossy and ALAC encoders, handling muxing, timing and channel order.

What changes

• New EncodeFormat entries: Aac and Alac in M4A (craft-media's MP4 muxer); Mp3, Ac3, Eac3 as raw streams.
• EncodeOptions::rate_control, via with_bitrate or with_quality (quality is AAC only). MP3 and AC-3 take the highest table rate not above the request; rates out of range move to the nearest valid one.
• Channels are mapped by speaker from EncodeOptions::layout. A layout the format lacks is Unsupported.
• M4A timing for AAC: an edit list skips the priming, the last sample is cut to the exact length, and a roll sample group makes Apple's decoders apply the edit.
• EncodeFormat::{codec, is_lossy, is_built, feature}.
• Queries before writing: EncodeOptions::check (the error FileEncoder::new would return, nothing written), EncodeOptions::bitrate / FileEncoder::bitrate (the rate actually used), and EncodeFormat::{sample_rates, max_channels, fixed_layouts, supports_layout, supports_quality}.
• encode_format_for and ENCODE_EXTENSIONS add m4a, alac, mp3, ac3, eac3, ec3.

For existing users: aac-encode and alac-encode now enable craft-media's isobmff feature.

craft-media

• TrackConfig::roll_distance writes the roll group. It is a new public field: a downstream struct literal needs it.
• Chunk offsets count from the file's first byte, not the writer's position 0.
• Position arithmetic is checked.

Not in this change

• Issue point 3: a public codec-agnostic packet encoder.
• Raw MP3, AC-3 and E-AC-3 carry no delay or length; MP3 has no Xing/Info tag.
• Opus (its encoder merged meanwhile) has no file format yet.
• Follow-ups from review: this crate's decoder returns 7/8-channel AAC without a speaker assignment; AAC quality in the last frame at low bit rates; ALAC packet size on silence.

Testing

Ran locally on both crates: cargo fmt --check, clippy -D warnings per feature and all features, cargo doc, wasm32 check, 1.95 check, cargo test --all-features.

New tests round-trip every format through this crate's decoder. ffmpeg decodes the M4A files without their priming (ffmpeg 9 also to the exact length; ffmpeg 8 plays the last packet's padding) and ALAC bit-exactly; macOS afinfo reports the frames written plus 1024 priming.

Not run locally: the Opus RFC 8251 vector tests (vectors not downloaded) and 3 craft-media oracle_ogg tests (local ffmpeg lacks libvorbis/libtheora).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added audio encoding support for AAC, ALAC, MP3, AC-3, and E-AC-3, including AAC and ALAC output in M4A files.
  • Added bitrate and quality controls, format validation, and clearer reporting of supported formats and encoder bitrates.
  • Improved MP4 muxing options for audio pre-roll and writing files from a nonzero starting position.
• Documentation
  • Expanded audio encoding guidance with format support, rate and channel requirements, and encoding limitations.

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Walkthrough

The audio crate adds file encoding for AAC, ALAC, MP3, AC-3, and E-AC-3. The MP4 muxer adds audio pre-roll sample groups, file-relative chunk offsets, and checked position advancement.

Changes: Coded audio encoding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Format contract and feature availability Cargo.toml, crates/audio/Cargo.toml, crates/audio/src/lib.rs, crates/audio/src/layout.rs	EncodeFormat adds five coded formats. EncodeOptions adds bitrate and quality controls. Feature gates expose file encoding for enabled encoder features. Channel mapping supports format-specific speaker order.
MP4 pre-roll and offset handling crates/media/src/isobmff/mux.rs, crates/media/README.md	TrackConfig adds optional roll_distance. Progressive muxing writes a roll sample group when configured and calculates chunk offsets relative to the writer’s starting position. Position advancement now checks for overflow.
Codec configuration and packet output crates/audio/src/aac/*, crates/audio/src/ac3/mod.rs, crates/audio/src/write/coded/*	The coded writer configures codec-specific channel layouts and rates. AAC and ALAC packets use M4A. MP3, AC-3, and E-AC-3 packets use raw output.
FileEncoder integration and validation crates/audio/src/write/*, crates/audio/tests/audio/*, crates/audio/tests/codecs/*, crates/audio/README.md, crates/audio/examples/encode.rs	FileEncoder and encode dispatch coded formats, and extension lookup reflects enabled features. Tests cover codec output, streaming, format lookup, and failures. Documentation and the example describe the added formats.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FileEncoder
  participant CodedWriter
  participant CodecEncoder
  participant Mp4Writer
  participant RawSink
  FileEncoder->>CodedWriter: write audio frames
  CodedWriter->>CodecEncoder: encode frames into packets
  CodecEncoder->>CodedWriter: return encoded packets
  CodedWriter->>Mp4Writer: mux AAC or ALAC packets
  CodedWriter->>RawSink: write MP3, AC-3, or E-AC-3 packets

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This change adds AAC, ALAC, MP3, AC-3 and E-AC-3 file encoding, plus MP4 muxer support for pre-roll and offset handling. Nothing in the supplied evidence shows a likely defect, and the new behavior has round-trip and validation tests. The new public TrackConfig::roll_distance field requires downstream struct literals to set it, which is documented and intended.

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Reviewed at e5fa1ac. No actionable findings in the file-encoding, channel mapping, rate-control, M4A timing/priming, or MP4 mux changes.

Focused validation passed: 4 coded-writer unit tests, 18 MP4 mux tests, and the file-format suite, including macOS afinfo priming/length validation. The ffmpeg oracle test skipped because ffmpeg is not installed. I did not run the full workspace suite, clippy, wasm checks, or every feature combination.