Some notes -- early last year I set up slimserver to play AAC (m4p)
files using faad, outputting WAV format.
Code:
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mov wav * *
[faad] -f 1 -w $FILE$
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I had to get a specific version of FAAD2 through CVS, because they
apparently fixed and then broke the byte order during development of
version 2.1. I found that information in an older thread here on the
slimdevices forum.
It works fine sending WAV files to slimserver. However, when you pipe
its output to lame or flac, you end up with the wrong byte order and
get raucous static. I'm really curious why the correct byte order for
slimserver is the wrong byte order for flac and lame. Any ideas?
I tried mplayer today, and got it working with
Code:
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mov wav * *
[mplayer] -really-quiet -novideo -vc dummy -vo null -ao pcm:file=/dev/fd/4
$FILE$ 4>&1 1>&2 2>/dev/null - -
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However, there's a thump at the start of each track, like non-audio
information is being played. I suspect that the "nowaveheader"
directive would fix that, so I will try it tonight.
It's too bad that FAAD2 doesn't seem to be maintained.
It's too bad that mplayer doesn't support piped output natively.
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John Stimson
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