[mythtv-users] Errors Watching x.264 encoded videos..

Kevin Kuphal kkuphal at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 17:25:12 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Jeff Simpson <jeffsimpson at alum.wpi.edu>
wrote:

> >  > I have lots of x264 encoded videos that I play with the Internal
> >  > player without problems.  Which revision of x264 are you using?
> >  > Perhaps its the codec itself that's causing problems (especially if
> >  > xvid encoded files work fine).
> >  >
> >
> >  I guess I shouldn't say that x264 is the problem now that I think
> >  about it. I was testing using handbrake, and some of my files did work
> >  while others did. I think it depended on the audio encoding I picked.
> >  If I chose AAC, it wouldn't play, if I used MP3 it would. Currently
> >  I'm using meGUI with all the default options, I'll try encoding a file
> >  using MP3 and see how it works.
>
> I'm having the same problem. I'm using video2ipod to encode videos to
> h264 with aac, and I thought it would be nice to import those back
> into myth so that I wouldn't need to keep two copies of videos once I
> was done encoding them. Myth Internal player is able to play the
> video, but no audio. Does anyone know if the Myth Internal player can
> play aac?


I think you have to compile with --enable-faad or --enabled-libfaad or
whatever the option is to get AAC playback in the frontend.

Kevin
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