Re: [Banshee-List] iPod Transcoding

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 12:54 +1100, CHRis Halse Rogers wrote:
> On 3/7/06, Forrest Voight <voights gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > Try playing with the iPod transcoding settings in prefrences. m4a (MPEG layer 4) is a newer standard then mp3.
> >
> >
> Don't bother trying to transcode to MP4/AAC (the Banshee option is
> "Faac MP4") - it doesn't work, has never worked (as far as I know),
> and Aaron has no plans to fix it.

The problem is not fixable in Banshee. faac is junk... always has been.

> 
> I'm not sure why the option is even in there.

Wishful thinking probably; I think I'll remove it as it's not even
available in GStreamer 0.10. We'll have to wait and see what AAC options
will become available in the future.

> For anyone who wants to try and fix it, what is needed is to add the
> ffmux_mp4 gstreamer element to the pipeline, after faac, because faac
> just produces raw AAC frames, not a proper mp4 file.  Without the
> extra info in the mp4 headers, nothing can play the output.  I've
> tried, but there's some bad interaction between the "spider" plugin
> used to decode files & the ffmux_mp4 plugin.  Also, ffmux_mp4 is not
> yet available in GStreamer 0.10.

ffmux_mp4 and faac has always been broken for me, even using decodebin.
Again, I think the best option is to just wait and see what happens with
0.10.

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