Re: [Banshee-List] M4a and M4b support

[Patrick Ohearn <pat ge3k net>]

On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 00:45 +0200, Andy Underhill wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, but yes ffmpeg and gstreamer010-ffmpeg (0.10.3)
> installed.  The latter is possibly the problem.
> 
> I was using the previous main release which coped with m4a's, but in
> order to upgrade to 1.0 I uninstalled the previous version and
> installed via 1 click install version 1.0.
> 
> Is there a version of gstreamer for version 1.0?
> 
> Cheers
> Andy 
> 
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 17:32 -0500, Brandon Perry wrote:
> > Make sure you have the correct codecs install (ffmpeg for m4a I
> > believe).
> > 
> > 2008/6/9 Andy Underhill <mr andrew underhill gmail com>:
> >         Hi,
> >         
> >         I'm desperate to migrate away from Windows, but have two
> >         reasons for keeping it on my PC, one is iTunes.  Banshee 1.0
> >         is great but.....the latest version no appears to longer
> >         play m4a files (it puts a small red X next to the files I'm
> >         trying to play), also it reports all my m4b audiobooks as
> >         errors.
> >         
> >         Is there a way of making Banshee support m4a/b?
> >         
> >         Andy Underhill 
> >         
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> > 
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Where are you getting your gstreamer and ffmpeg packages from? If they
are distro packages, what distro and main version are you using? 

Some distros have been known to opt-out of some media codecs due to
legal issues in the US.