[ATrpms-users] MythTV AAC Audio Support Broken

[Axel Thimm]

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 07:40:25AM -0800, Kirk Bocek wrote:
> Kirk Bocek wrote:
> > I've discovered that after my recent upgrade from CentOS 4.6 to 5.2 along with 
> > all ATRPMS packages, my AAC audio support no longer works. Using the MythTV 
> > internal players I get:
> > 
> > AFD Error: Could not find decoder for codec (AAC), ignoring.
> > 
> > mplayer also refuses to play AAC audio. I think I have the right packages 
> > installed:
> > 
> > $ rpm -qa |egrep "aac|aad"
> > faac-devel-1.26-3.el5
> > libfaac0-1.26-3.el5
> > faad2-2.6.1-10.el5
> > faac-1.26-3.el5
> > faad2-devel-2.6.1-10.el5
> > 
> > I saw the thread from last month with the same issue but didn't see any 
> > resolution. Both of my mythfrontend boxes have this problem. Both are x86_64.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any idea what is going on?
> 
> 
> I've discovered one thing. mencoder from package 
> mplayer-1.0-64_snap20081116.el5.x86_64.rpm does *not* recognize AAC audio. But 
> if I downgrade to mplayer-1.0-63_rc2.el5.x86_64.rpm then mencoder *does* 
> recognize AAC audio.

Whether mythtv's internal player and mplayer properly use AAC is most
probably unrelated.

Which was the version on EL4 that worked?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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