Re: [Banshee-List] Help needed on Banshee



On 8/16/06, SoftRomu <softromu hotmail com> wrote:
If I well understand you, it would be possible to:
- encode in AAC for let's say Sound Juicer using GST 8.0 AAC plugins
- use Banshee to playback the m4a files produced by Sound Juicer
- use Banshee to download these m4a files to the iPod.

This should work fine.


Am I wrong?

Of course this is the workaround while waiting a complete Banshee solution.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Halse Rogers" <chalserogers gmail com>
To: <banshee-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Banshee-List] Help needed on Banshee


> 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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