Hi Michael,

thanks for your answer. The Symbian media player plays those files just
fine. Even on an old Nokia 5880. The same situation with Windows Media
Player on Win7 - no problems playing .m4a files.

>From what I know I think Windows 7 comes with the following MP4/AAC
decoder.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd390676%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

It's a DirectShow Filter, so it should be available to Qt Mobility.

Cheers,
Conny


On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 08:34 +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello Conny,
> 
> Did you try your m4a files with the native Symbian media/music player? 
>  If that doesn't work, then Qt MultimediaKit won't work either since we
>  just use the underlying system codecs (we don't add any).  I'm not
>  sure about the Windows 7 issue - did you try it with WMP (or whatever
>  it's now called).  We use direct show, so if there's a missing DS
>  codec or mux then it might not work. 
> 
> Cheers,
> MichaelG
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: qt-mobility-feedback-
> > [email protected] [mailto:qt-mobility-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of
> > ext Cornelius Hald
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 4:25 PM
> > To: Harri Pasanen
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Qt-mobility-feedback] MP4 AAC (m4a) on Symbian and
> > Windows 7
> > 
> > Thanks Harri! And since no one else seems to know anything about it,
> > I'll file a bug and see what happens. On all non-Qt platforms I'm using
> > m4a without any issues and it really would be a pain to change all my
> > audio files only for using them with Qt. I still have hope :)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Conny
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 21:31 +0200, Harri Pasanen wrote:
> > > Not through Qt mobility, but I recall trying podcatcher with Stephen
> > Fry's
> > > podcasts that are mp4, and it did not play for me, (C7 phone).
> > >
> > > Monday, March 28, 2011 09:13 pm
> > > Cornelius Hald writes:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > did anyone already try to playback MP4 through Qt Mobility? Maybe
> > on a
> > > > Symbian^3 phone like the N8? What was you experience?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > > Conny
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 20:54 +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I know that QtMultimediaKit uses the codecs that are available on
> > the
> > > > > platform. However on my Symbian^1 phone and on Windows 7 (fresh
> > install)
> > > > > I can't playback MP4 audio.
> > > > >
> > > > > I thought Symbian^1 supports MP4 audio, so shouldn't it also be
> > > > > supported through Qt Mobility?
> > > > >
> > > > > The same question for Windows 7. If I install an additional MP4
> > codec
> > > > > I'm able to play audio through Qt Mobility. But (from what I
> > know)
> > > > > Microsoft already ships an MP4 codec with Windows 7. So why isn't
> > that
> > > > > used?
> > > > >
> > > > > I couldn't find anything about this on the bug tracker or the
> > mailing
> > > > > list, so I hope someone could explain whether this is a bug or
> > something
> > > > > else.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > Conny
> > > > >
> > > > >
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> > > Harri
> > > http://mpaja.com/
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