Playing .m4a?

[Ali Helmy]

On 11/04/06, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
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> Dan wrote:
> > You seem to be confusing video formats with audio formats. mp3 is
> > strictly an audio format. You need the appropriate codec for
> > whatever video format the .m4a file is using. I found VLC player
> > able to do this; mplayer/totem should be able to also with the
> > appropriate codec for gstreamer or xine.
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> .m4a is generally AAC encoded audio.  It's the extension iTunes uses
> for songs ripped in it's default setup.  .m4v is used for videos.
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> I don't know if there is other software using these extensions in
> different ways, but I suppose it's possible.
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Ok, mates, this is just to say thank you and to confirm

I downloaded xmms-faad2 [yum install xmms-faad2.i386] from the livna repo
and now XMMS can play .m4a files that were ripped in iTunes

Thank you

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     A. Helmy
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