[mythtv-users] No AAC Audio with Internal Player

[Kirk Bocek]

Josh Mastronarde wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Allen Edwards
> <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Allen Edwards wrote:
>>>> Make sure you have this setting correct:
>>>> Max Audio Channels: Stereo
>>>>
>>>> It will not work if you set it to 5.1 even though that is what you want.
>>>> It is a well documented bug.
>>>>
>>>> Allen
>>> Thanks. I am unfamiliar with this bug. So will that setting keep the AAC
>>> codec
>>> from being loaded? That's what the log file is saying.
>>
>> I just know it will not work if you don't set it to Stereo. I think it is in
>> the setup instructions as well.  If you don't have it set that way this
>> is undoubtedly your problem.  Let me know how it works out.
>> Allen
>>
> 
> I have a sneaking suspicion we're talking about different things here.
>  Kirk is trying to play files with AAC encoded audio (coded used with
> Ipod mp4 files, among other things), not AC3 audio (the common codec
> for multi-channel, e.g. 5.1, HDTV broadcasts).  Allen's excellent wiki
> page is about setting up digital outputs to pass multi-channel AC3
> audio, not anything to do with AAC.  Do I have that right?
> 
> I too have tried to get AAC working, on a self-compiled 0.21-fixes.
> Before using --enable-libfaad, I get the same "could not find decoder"
> message.  After compiling with --enable-libfaad and
> --enable-libfaadbin, I don't get that log message, but mythfrontend
> crashes with a segfault instead.
> 
> I suspect an incompabitility between the version of faad2 that Myth is
> expecting and the current version, but haven't had time to pursue
> that.  Please follow up if you're able to make any more progress.
> 
> Josh

Ah, confirmation! That seems to describe exactly my situation. I'm trying to 
play mp4 video files containing AAC audio. Take a look at the error messages I 
posted. My work-around is to use mplayer instead of the internal player.

Sounds like no one has a solution here.