Lestrad wrote: 
> Thanks for answering! I wasn't sure anyone would. To be clear, what I
> want to do is add a directory with mp4 music videos to the LMS library
> and listen to just the audio.

Good that the use case is explained. Bad - that you are trying to play
video files.   LMS audio etc is setup to play audio files not video
file.

>  It would be cool for the video to display on the Squeezebox Touch's
> screen, but that's not indispensable.
Never going to happen for man many reasons. The first one is that
community is unable to build Touch firmware and so it is not possible to
add new decoders. Second would be CPU power & memory of the Touch is
probably too limited.

>  So you confirm that the MPEG-4 file types should be "disabled" and not
> "native"?

Yes and No.
Definitely disable MPEG4 as you have a video file and so native would
never work.

MPEG4 is a container - so could container one audio track or many
"track" - video , synced audio, secondary audio, synced metadata etc.
Current LMS usage generally assumes MPEG-4 to be audio only.

Since mid 7.9.2 there are two MPEG-4 filetypes - "MPEG-4" and "MPEG-4
leading audio" the 2nd type was added to support native decoding of
MPEG-4 files that have been configured for streaming (MPEG-4 is complex
with many options). Only the "MPEG-4" has a "native option"

While default MPEG-4 transcoding is done via faad - I don't know if faad
can handle video (multi track) files. If after diabling "native",
transcoding with faad doesn't work then you'll need to a
custom-convert.conf file with ffmpeg instead of faad and probably
special options to discard video.  There are other post showing how to
use ffmpeg for MPEG-4 but IIRC none have the "discard video" part.


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