[desktop-discuss] aac files in rhythmbox

[Albert White]

Hi folks,

I've been trying to get rhythmbox to play files copied from my ipod which are in aac (m4v) format withought much success.

mplayayer from blastwave can play them fine, so I know the files are ok. It's using the faad encoder.

This plugin is not available in nv_47, or for that matter from blastwave for gstreamer. Its tucked away in plugins-bad on the gstreamer website! I complied these fine but the docs mention running gst-register, which seem to be removed from gstramer, so I just copied the libraries from -bad into /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/  and deleted ~/.gstreamer. Perhaps I should take a hint from code labelled -bad!

Rhythmbox now displays the songs and tags correctly, but still does not actually play the file. When I click on properties of the file I get a message at the bottom of the dialogue box of 'Gstreamer encountered a general stream error'.

Am I going about this the wrong way?

I haven't managed to debug this very far. I can't see how to check exactly what library rhytybbox is using to play the file. gst-typefind says the files are "audio/x-m4a" but that could match the qtdemux plugin or faad which cam also play mpeg4.

Any thoughts on how I can debug this further or whether there is an easier way to play aac files in rhythmbox?

Thanks,
~Al
 
 
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