Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Supported audio

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 08:52, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Le lun, 22/03/2004 à 20:40 -0500, Colin Walters a écrit :
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:18, David SPOOF Hemenway wrote:
> > > I can't seam to find a list of what formats are supported, just that 
> > > you say it has robust format support, and a couple examples with 
> > > dependencies to get for them.
> > > Do you support .m4a, aka AAC format?  
> 
> > Using GStreamer, the answer is that I'm not aware of a GStreamer plugin
> > to either play back AAC or load metadata from it.  
> 
> gst-plugins/ext/faad should be able to play .aac files. It doesn't seem
> to read metadata though, maybe a demuxer is needed to use faad and
> metadata is handled by this demuxer, maybe it's not implemented yet.
> 
> [CCing Ronald since he wrote the gstfaad afair]

You'd need the Qt demuxer and have it handle a fair bit more atoms read
for the metadata that iTunes uses. Shouldn't be complicated to add if
you know which ones to use (see src/demuxers/demux_qt.c in xine-lib for
a non-exhaustive list of the atoms to support).

Cheers

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