Bugzilla – Bug 3174
add and document discrete transcode labels for ALAC and AAC in convert.conf
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:12:08 UTC
Subject: convert.conf for mplayer decoding of AAC/ALAC Message-Id: <4419D79B.9050801@gmail.com> I'm running slimserver 6.2.1 (and mplayer) on a Buffalo Linkstation. I want to send my AAC and ALAC files from my server to my SB3 .. probably just decoding to WAV. I think the bandwidth hit will be better than the CPU hit for reencoding to flac for streaming. I know slimserver is working, I *think* mplayer was built/compiled correctly, but I don't know what to put in slimserver-convert.conf I've seen these options: # mplayer Transcoding for ALAC/AAC mov wav * * [mplayer] -novideo -ao pcm:file=/dev/fd/4 $FILE$ 4>&1 1>/dev/null OR (adds nowaveheader which is reported to cause a 'pop'?) mov wav * * [mplayer] -novideo -ao pcm:nowaveheader:file=/dev/fd/4 $FILE$ 4>&1 1>/dev/null OR mov wav * * [mplayer] -really-quiet -novideo -vc dummy -vo null -ao pcm:nowaveheader:file=/dev/fd/4 $FILE$ 4>&1 1>&2 2>/dev/null - - I don't understand the switches so I'm at a loss. I've read the forums and pm'd promising folks. The wiki only discusses using FAAD which evidently won't handle ALAC. Help.
Dean - thoughts on this? Do we want to have commented out ALAC in convert.conf?
Dean? Thoughts?
Sorry for the delayed response. The bug title and description don't seem to go together for me. Is the problem finding the right switches/mplayer version or do you want different switches? If you want different switches for the two encoders, then we'll need to do some fancy stuff to determine file type after processing the file and not just by suffix. Can I get a better explanation of the issue?
My reading of Kevin's request is this: Can we add commented mplayer and alac lines to convert.conf? Presumably so those running on non-win or non-mac platforms don't have to do a lot of searching to get AAC files playing.
Subject: Re: add and document discrete transcode labels for ALAC and AAC in convert.conf I have no problem adding comments to any file. :)
*** Bug 8374 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 3440 [details] new convert.conf This is a new convert.conf file, re-oganised by input type and I've added the faad options commented out. Given a list of other known working conversions, we could add them here with comments and provide the entire file in the builds.
I just want to note that I opened bug 8374 to request that AAC have its own file type and be separate form the MOV file type. If this bug does not cover this request I would like to reopen bug 8374. I would also like to see ALAC have its own file type as well and looks to be somewhat covered in bug 8411.
Both AAC & ALAC are supported in 7.3.3.
This bug has been fixed in the 7.3.3 release version of SqueezeCenter! If you haven't already. please download the new version from http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/support/download-squeezecenter.html If you are still experiencing this problem, feel free to reopen the bug with your new comments and we'll have another look.