Xmms AAC / MP4 Plugins?

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svkelley · Post by **svkelley** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 12:32 am

Are there any plugins for Xmms that can play AAC / MP4 encoded
audio files? I was able to use Grip and Faac to encode some AAC
files. I can generate a wav file using Faad. But I would really
like to be able to use an Xmms plugin.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Sean

djprotoss · Post by **djprotoss** » Thu May 22, 2003 1:57 pm

AFAIK there isn't an AAC or MP4 Plugin for xmms in portage.

I have an ebuild for an aac plugin in bugzilla, but it won't play mp4 or m4a files.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php? ... hlight=aac

The author of the above plugin has written an mp4 plugin, but i'm having trouble creating a working ebuild...

klasikahl · Post by **klasikahl** » Sun May 25, 2003 8:57 pm

what options did you set in grip for faac?

svkelley · Post by **svkelley** » Mon May 26, 2003 8:16 pm

The AAC encoder faac takes the bitrate in bits per second rather than kbits per second
so I had to hardcode the bitrate:

Here are my settings:

/usr/bin/faac

-m 4 -o LC -b 128000 %w %m

Sean

klasikahl · Post by **klasikahl** » Fri May 30, 2003 1:30 am

it's too bad xmms has terrible aac support. are there any other media players out there that support aac? (the more natively, the better.)

stormer · Post by **stormer** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 1:42 am

I'm using Totem, that work with mp4 and also m4a ripped from apple iTune

suck_ma_penguin · Post by **suck_ma_penguin** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:59 pm

mpd supports aac, and it's a great music library. On the other hand, if you want to play individual files, it's not ideal. I personally have mpd for my main music collection and bmp with bmp-mp4 (~x86) for playing occasional individual files.

Xmms AAC / MP4 Plugins?

Xmms AAC / MP4 Plugins?

Totem!