Re: [Banshee-List] Help needed on Banshee

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

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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> >> >>
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