bpa;548959 Wrote: > Not right - if the player does not support AAC+ - an AAC/AAC+ will not > play at all. AAC+ is not MP3 or WMA with additions. There are sound > quality/encosing option within AAC+ which are used depending on bit > rate. In practive, this means above a specific bit rate usually the > AAC+ options are not used and the stream is just AAC.
Looks like I should have been clearer in my wording. I know that AAC+ is not based on WMA or MP3. by "non AAC+" I was trying to differentiate between something that can play AAC but not aacPlus. aacPlus was designed to be forward compatible - so that something that is able to play AAC would be able to play aacPlus but without access to the "+" bits (by discarding the ancilliary data area that holds SBR and PS information). i.e. it would play at a lower quality (although the Via Licensing pages seem to have ignored that) Manufacturers that bought AAC license prior to aacPlus existance have to buy a new license to allow them to get the richer content. http://www.vialicensing.com/licensing/AAC_FAQ.cfm?faq=7#7 -- Paul Webster Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78798 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
