On 1/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Axel Thimm</b> <<a href="mailto:Axel.Thimm@atrpms.net">Axel.Thimm@atrpms.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:53:25PM -0600, jim scott wrote:<br>> I'm running Myth 0.20 using atrpms on Fedora Core 5. I'm trying to play some<br>> .mov files with mpeg4 video and mpeg4/aac audio. I compiled a version of
<br>> ffmpeg and ffplay from the latest source and confirmed that the new binaries<br>> could decode and play the .mov files.<br><br>Off topic, but could you test whether the rpms at ATrpms also work for<br>your files?
</blockquote><div><br><br>Using the ATrpms from about 2 months ago, a simple conversion (something like ffmpeg -i my.mov my.avi) fails because it can't decode the audio stream. Same problem with ffplay my.mov -- I get an error playing the audio stream. Do the current MythVideo packages include aac playback?
<br><br>The audio is actually coming out of the Cinelerra rendering engine. The Ubuntu 6.06 ffmpeg package won't play the Cinelerra mov's either. I had to compile ffmpeg with the the --enable-faac flag on that box, too.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> However, MythVideo still refuses to play the files:<br><br>It uses its own copy of ffmpeg, so building an external ffmpeg won't
<br>help (that's not 100% correct, I think mytharchive uses an external<br>ffmpeg, but not MythVideo).<br></blockquote></div><br>Sounds like the only way to get MythVideo's internal player to handle aac audio is to build my own copy. Since your packages work so well together, I'm going to find another solution. I'll either re-encode my mov's to avi's with ac3 audio or configure mplayer to respond to my remote.
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