[SOLVED] Playing m4a [MPEG4 AAC] files

Allan · 2007-07-05 06:35:59

I am having trouble playing an m4a file. Quod libet say it does not know what to do with them and totem tells me I need to install MPEG4 AAC demuxer plugin.

I have faad2 and gstreamer0.10-faad installed. Are these not the right gstreamer components?

Last edited by Allan (2007-07-07 09:08:55)

ataraxia · 2007-07-05 12:17:42

I don't know these two media players, but both mpd (with its various frontends) and beep media player play these just fine out of the box.

Allan · 2007-07-05 12:45:11

Just installed beep media player think it might drag in some dependency I did not know about but it wouldn't play them either. There are several files that I know play in iTunes on windows so its not just a corrupt file.

Any other ideas?

nikron · 2007-07-05 14:30:01

mplayer/totem-xine play them fine.

emmybear · 2007-07-05 23:42:21

Did you buy them off of iTunes? If so, they are DRM protected and will only play in your copy of iTunes in Windows. If not, say so and I will think of some more stuff. ;3

3nd3r · 2007-07-06 00:07:33

audacious plays them fine as well as amarok

Allan · 2007-07-06 04:23:58

I did not buy them from iTunes but they were downloaded... so I don't think they are very DRMed (some of these files I have had for years now).

I will try other media players but I quite like Quod Libet so would prefer a solution rather than a "work around".

willy · 2007-07-06 06:49:09

maybe try installing codecs?

pacman -S codecs

Allan · 2007-07-06 07:06:14

willy wrote:

maybe try installing codecs?
pacman -S codecs

Didn't help...

Allan · 2007-07-07 09:10:02

I figured this out finally. I just had to reinstall gstreamer0.10- good and bad. Resulted from deleting files to fix the clash described on this post:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34680

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