.mp4, MPEG-4 HE-AAC not being played, AAC Option '960 transformationlength' supported? Options

[jgro]

Hi,

is or will it be possible to play audiofiles with format:

.mp4, MPEG-4 HE-AAC

It's a DAB+ recording made by NOXON DAB MediaPlayer by Fraunhofer. There is said that for playback

"the AAC Option '960 transformationlength' has to be supported" in the player-software.

(Btw. VLC and AIMP3 did play it out of the box.)

Other aac files in my foobar2000 1.2.3 are being played well. Do I need another aac decoder? Or has the
'core' to be changed by Peter to hopefully forfill my wish?

TIA
jgro

[marc2003]

if you can find a command line decoder, it should might work with this...

http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_input_exe

edited to cover my back.

This post has been edited by marc2003: Mar 2 2013, 18:00

[The Link]

Generally speaking, a short sample would always help the developer tremendously with fixing such a bug. You can use the upload forum for that.

[jgro]

You're right of course.

A sample is posted under http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=99738

Error Message:
Unable to open item for playback (ffmpeg: could not open the decoder):
"E:\DAB-Recordings\2013-03-02_16.49.29-LoungeFM.DAB+.mp4"

jgro

This post has been edited by jgro: Mar 2 2013, 19:01

[jgro]

if you can find a command line decoder, it should might work with this...

http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_input_exe

edited to cover my back.

Even foo_input_exe didn't solve the problem, I tried to use neroAacDec.exe and ffmpeg.exe as well.

Btw., the Codec-Information in VLC also says: AAC-Extension: SBR

So any further help is appreciated.

jgro

[lvqcl]

You can use faad2 to decode it ( http://www.rarewares.org/aac-decoders.php#faad2-win )

[jgro]

You can use faad2 to decode it ( http://www.rarewares.org/aac-decoders.php#faad2-win )

With faad using as command-line wrapper, the decoding to .wav is working.

Anyhow it would be useful to let fb2k be able to playback this kind of MPEG-4 AAC file directly out of the box.

thanks
jgro

[The Link]

Since foobar2000 now uses ffmpeg for aac decoding, it would be best if you post on the ffmpeg mailing list and ask them to fix this. I think that way your chances getting this fixed will rise tremendously. As this is a rare aac setup you're using, I'd say it's not very probable that Peter will fix this himself anytime soon (if at all).

[Brazil2]

Since foobar2000 now uses ffmpeg for aac decoding, it would be best if you post on the ffmpeg mailing list and ask them to fix this.

Sorry but it seems more to be a foobar problem than an ffmpeg problem.

This file crashes an older version of foobar (1.0.3) I have on an XP PC, version which is not using ffmpeg decoding.
And the file is playing fine with any other ffmpeg based player I've tried (VLC, Mplayer, ffplay, MPC-HC).

[Case]

You must be mistaken. VLC decodes this with faad. Latest FFmpeg build from zeranoe does not decode it at all, gives error "960/120 MDCT window is not implemented". Latest MPC-HC build tries to play it but only outputs two loud glitches. I don't see how this is not an FFmpeg limitation.

[lvqcl]

Ticket #1407 (opened@2012-06): "aac: 960/120 MDCT window is not implemented"

FFmpeg Summer of Code 2013: "GSoC task proposal ideas: AAC: AAC 960/120 MDCT window"

(and AFAIK 15-point FFT subroutine is required to decode such files)

This post has been edited by lvqcl: Mar 5 2013, 15:28