[gst-devel] faac encoded m4a files identified as video/quicktime

Gunnar Degnbol degnbol at danbbs.dk
Mon Jun 27 17:31:19 CEST 2005


Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:00:04PM +0200, Gunnar Degnbol wrote:
> 
>>Playing faac encoded m4a files are not possible in Rhythmbox because 
>>gstreamer returns the type video/quicktime instead of audio/x-m4a, and 
>>Rhythmbox is not a video player. Files encoded with iTunes play in 
>>Rhythmbox, and the faac files play in iTunes and on my iPod.
> 
> 
> If it helps at all, Rhythmbox CVS doesn't care what mime type GStreamer
> says a file is, as long as it only contains audio data.  I've just
> tested it with some faac encoded files and it works fine.
> 
> -jonathan
> 
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Thanks! It does help, but shouldn't gstreamer return the correct mime type?

Gunnar




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