[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #5351: Internal player can't downmix 5.1 AAC properly

[Stuart Morgan]

On Saturday 14 Aug 2010 15:00:40 Raymond Wagner wrote:
>   On 8/14/2010 05:22, MythTV wrote:
> >   I have the same problem as specified in the original ticket. I couldn't
> >   work out why some Blu Ray rips were not playing back correctly and
> >   others were. The only difference is 5.1 downmixing. I am using
> >   0.23+fixes on the Mythbuntu distribution. I'm not sure what extra
> >   information is required to help troubleshoot this issue.
> 
> It's a known issue with 5.1 AAC playback. We use an external decoder for
> AAC playback, instead of the normal ffmpeg libraries, as it's needed for
> LATM support used by some broadcasters. One of the devs is working on
> support to submit upstream to ffmpeg, which will hopefully get back to
> MythTV some time in the 0.25 cycle.

Alternatively you can compile without that external lib (libfaad) and use the 
build in aac decoding, just keeping in mind that LATM isn't supported.

-- 
Stuart Morgan