First of all have a look at this
document:
Dolby Digital: ac3
Dolby Digital Plus: eac3
MP2: libtwolame, mp2
Windows Media Audio 1: wmav1
Windows Media Audio 2: wmav2
LC-AAC: libfdk_aac, libfaac, aac, libvo_aacenc
HE-AAC: libfdk_aac, libaacplus
Vorbis: libvorbis, vorbis
MP3: libmp3lame, libshine
Opus: libopus
from the above reading it will be clear to you that in order to encode audio in HE-AAC/ HE-AAC-V2 you have to use libfdk_aac or libaacplus.
I will explain how you can do it using libfdk_aac:
first make sure you configure ffmpeg along with following options:
--enable-libfdk_aac --enable-nonfree
now build ffmpeg and try to run the following command and see if it works:
ffmpeg -i <input file> -vcodec copy -acodec libfdk_aac -profile:a aac_he <output file>
if this works it means libav is linked with libfdk_aac.
now in order to use it in the code:
open the encoder using the following instructions:
AVCodecContext *encoder_ctx;
encoder_ctx->codec_id = AV_CODEC_ID_AAC;
encoder_ctx->sample_fmt = AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S16;
encoder_ctx->profile = FF_PROFILE_AAC_HE;
encoder = avcodec_find_encoder_by_name("libfdk_aac");
// if you still try to open it using avcodec_find_encoder it will open libfaac only.
avcodec_open2(encoder_ctx, encoder, NULL);
Here we go, you have libfdk_aac encoder open !
The profiles which you can use are as given in this source