I am looking for a bit of help understanding the implications of the 'Android Supported Media Formats'[1].
I see that the AAC formats are only supported for decoding when using 3GPP or MPEG-4 container and that there is no support for raw AAC. My question is this, I am working on a project which would require playing audio from an aac audio stream from an http server.[2] Not my server, nothing I can change about that. The supported formats seems to suggest I should move to 'wrapping' my aac audio in either 3gp or mp4. I am able to, with assistance from several tools, convert a sample of the stations audio from aac to aac embedded in both 3gp and mp4 containers. I'm not really clear on what is happening when I do this conversion and if it would be possible to do this on the phone without the assistance of one of these tools. Not really sure where else to reach out to with this as reviewing this mailing list and the internet for a few days haven't really moved me forward. I'll list what I think my options are, and maybe someone can chime in if they think they can steer me in the right direction: 1. ) Figure out how to slip an mp4 or 3gp 'container' around the aac audio stream using an internal proxy. 2. ) Obtain a aac license and do my own decoding or license a 3rd party tool in the same way 3. ) Try to convert my client to use another audio format for their radio station. 4. ) Provide a proxy service for the client where I capture the stream and then convert it to 3gp/mp4 content and then stream that Any help is appreciated. [1] - http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html [2] - example: http://wnyc-wqxr-ice.streamguys.com:80/wqxr.aac -- Nick Campion Android Development and Release Pipeline www.doapps.com Also follow us at http://www.twitter.com/doapp And "fan" us at http://www.facebook.com/DoApps Plus our blog is here: http://www.doapps.com/blog/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
