Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't manage to install the
mp4file --optimize program in Ubuntu, but I did find a similar program for
Windows.
mp4box -hint
It splits the file into 500ms segments and writes the header information at
the beginning of each segment. I had a 45min program which seemed to make
the Longevity player freeze for about 4min. The hinted file didn't make the
player freeze or delay. It immediately skipped to the next file and did not
play anything.
mp4box -hint did report an error.
[ODF] Error reading descriptor (tag 6 size 16): Invalid MPEG-4 Descriptor
I was sent two small files each about 90s, one .m4a as downloaded from the
BBC and the other after running mp4file --optimize. Neither caused any
freezing or delay, so that may only occur with larger files. With both the
player immediately skipped to the next file without playing anything.
Playing aac/.m4a files does seem to be problematic. At one time the iPod
Shuffle 2 would not play files from some versions of Nero.
https://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=57805
On Friday, September 11, 2015 12:32 PM Jon Davies wrote:
On 9 September 2015 at 11:05, RS <[email protected]> wrote:
If I try to play the BBC Radio 4 .m4a files in the Longevity player the
player freezes for about 4min.
I recall hearing about similar behaviour with someone's mp3 player -
it appeared that the player was reading through the entire file to
read some metadata at the end before actually playing the audio
stream. I don't beleive that the m4a files that come out of iplayer
are optimised for streaming, and I believe that some of the metadata
is at the end of the file. So it's possible that your player is
having a similar problem.
On ubunutu I use "mp4file --optimize" to optimize each m4a file that
pops out of get_iplayer, there are other programs that do similar
things. You could try this and see if it solves your problem, and if
it does it's possible to write a script that get_iplayer runs after
each download to do this every time.
Jon
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