Re: [Banshee-List] Help needed on Banshee

["Christopher Halse Rogers" <chalserogers gmail com>]

On 8/16/06, SoftRomu <softromu hotmail com> wrote:
> Thanks for this quick answer.
>
> Ok for gstreamer 0.10.
>
> The Banshee FAQ says we can get AAC support with some GStreamer 0.8 packages
> (http://banshee-project.org/Distributions/Ubuntu). Does this work for AAC
> encoding and playback? Or must I forget AAC for time?

Playback of valid mp4/m4a is fine with GST 0.10.  You just can't
encode to AAC correctly.

The ffmux_mp4 element exists, and works for GST 0.8, so you can make
valid mp4/m4a files with GST 0.8.  I'm not sure whether Banshee ever
correctly encoded to AAC, though it would be (easily) possible to fix.
However, the GST 0.8 backend is deprecated, I think, so you'll need
to specifically build Banshee with GST 0.8 support if you want Banshee
to encode to AAC.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Halse Rogers" <chalserogers gmail com>
> To: <banshee-list gnome org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [Banshee-List] Help needed on Banshee
>
>
> > On 8/16/06, SoftRomu <softromu hotmail com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >> i'm quite new to banshee and I need some help to use it with my 5G iPod.
> >>
> >> First question:
> >> what's the purpose of having a normal encoding profile and an iPod one?
> >> And
> >> how does this work? Just drag & drop CD content on my iPod?
> >
> > The normal encoding profile is what Banshee imports your CDs with, the
> > iPod profile is what Banshee will use to transcode your tracks (from
> > your library) before transferring to your iPod (or other portable
> > player).
> >
> >>
> >> Second question:
> >> How can I encore my CD in AAC? I've read dozens of tuto and FAQ and...I
> >> can
> >> produce m4a files with sound juicer but I can't play these files with
> >> Rythmbox or Banshee: "format not supported', or "not a audio MPEG4
> >> file"...
> >
> > At the moment, you can't produce valid m4a/mp4 files with GStreamer
> > 0.10 - the faac GST element produces an AAC stream well enough, but
> > there's no mp4 muxer (basically, something that writes "here's the
> > start of this bit, it's 200 samples long, 12KB"), and without that
> > information it's impossible to play the stream.  This will work as
> > soon as
> > 1) Someone writes an MP4 muxer for GStreamer
> > 2) Someone fixes the ff_mux elements, because FFmpeg has an mp4 muxer.
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks for your help.
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> >>
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