Bug 78706

Summary:	Playing AAC/M4A Audio Fails Painfully
Product:	arts	Reporter:	Reid Orsten <rorsten>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Stefan Westerfeld <stefan>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Reid Orsten 2004-03-30 01:39:14 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc 3.2.3 
OS:          Linux

When playing AAC/M4A files in noatun or kaboodle, a small video window pops (it never gets painted; just a frame) and short variable length bursts of full intensity white noise (0.5 - 2 seconds, with 0.5 - 1 second gaps in between) are played.

This is on Gentoo/PPC with kernel 2.6.4. mplayer plays the same files perfectly.  This is probably an endianness bug, or something.

Comment 1 Michael Pyne 2004-03-30 03:06:09 UTC

I wasn't aware that aRts had AAC support.  Is it possible that the sound system thinks it's trying to play an MP3 file?

Comment 2 Allan Sandfeld 2004-03-30 12:03:58 UTC

aRts has AAC playback if Xine has. The empty window is an artifact of playing 
audio through a video-codec like the aRts-Xine plugin is. 
Try playing the file in Xine and see if it can handle it. Also if the file is 
encrypted, nothing on Linux can play it.

Comment 3 Allan Sandfeld 2004-06-19 16:51:41 UTC

Closing. The problem with the small empty window has been solved, and unencrypted AAC/M4A is implemented through xine_artsplugin.