MPEG-4 Movies

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 01:40 +0200, Marek Pawinski wrote: 
> Just got it right now, am using trusty mplayer with the "esd" sound 
> option, alsa and oss don't work.
> 
> 
"libavcodec" (also known as "lavc" and more correctly "FFMPEG"¹) can't
handle AAC audio streams.  You need support for FAAD² (Free Advanced
Audio Decoder).

Here's what I get when running "mplayer -ac help | grep -i AAC": 
        faad  faad  working  FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder  [libfaad2]


Make sure your MPlayer have support for FAAD.  Also, as far as I
remember, Totem with the Xine back-end can handle those files without a
problem.

I just confirmed this.  I have several AVI files that have sound encoded
with AAC, and I just played them without a problem in Totem.  When I
click on "Properties" from the "Movie" main menu, I get the following
about the Audio:
        Audio
                Bitrate:   0 kbps
                Codec:     AAC (libfaad)

Ziyad.

Footnotes:
     1. http://ffmpeg.org
     2. http://www.audiocoding.com