[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend and AAC

[Francois Gouget]

Hi,

I'm running the Snider Pad build of Mythfrontend (0.21-fixes 20090126 
rev 19778) on a Mac Mini (Leopard) and I noticed that in some recorded 
shows I have no sound. So I investigated a bit and these videos happen 
to have an AAC soundtrack (and h264 for the video).

Looking in the console I saw the following Mythfrontend message:

2009-02-21 00:31:34.701 AFD Error: Could not find decoder for codec (AAC), ignoring.


Does anyone know if the Mac build is supposed to support AAC sound?

I was unable to find much online about how Mythfrontend handles AAC. It 
seems like there's an --enable-libfaac configure option but I have no 
idea if it applies to the Mac OS X build.

Maybe instead this is a runtime issue. Do you know if Mythfrontend needs 
any specific codec to be separately installed on the Mac? I'd expect the 
Mac to already have what it takes to decode AAC since that's the format 
used on the iTunes Store (iric).


Regards,


References:
 * --enable-libfaac configure option
   http://www.nabble.com/Errors-Watching-x.264-encoded-videos..-td15008817s15552.html

 * An extract of a recording with an AAC soundtrack for which I have no 
   sound on the Mac:
   http://fgouget.free.fr/tmp/MythTest-AAC.mpg

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