Re: [Banshee-List] iPod Transcoding

["Øivind Hoel" <oivind hoel gmail com>]

So this is probably a bug then; My ipod transcoding setting has always
been lame mp3 (and I'm using gst-0.8), but oggs get transcoded into
m4a, while mp3s get transferred as-is....

On 3/7/06, Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com> wrote:
> 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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