[MPlayer-users] Is libmad really needed???

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 23 June 2008 at 09:43, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> On Monday 23 June 2008 08:10:46 Pedro A. Aranda wrote:
> 
> > Hi Nico,
> >
> > thanks a lot for your reasoned answer. I perfectly well understand
> > now what the implications are and have installed libmad. The _real_
> > problem for me was, that even with FAAC'd audio, mplayer insisted
> > on loading libmad and was complaining about it not being available.
> > I have lately seen that mad is the default audio coded in
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf Could it be that mplayer insists in
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > loading libmad because of this? Would then the answer to my problme
> > be to comment the audio codec line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf ?

This is exactly what I told you about a couple of messages earlier
in this thread.

> -ac SOMETHING . 
> -ac help will show a list of available decoders.
> Anyway, if your file contains AAC audio and mplayer wants to
> use mad or some other mp2/3 audio decoder

No, it doesn't "want" to, but it is "told" to by a configuration
option in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf.

> then most likely you
> are playing an mpegts file without PMT, in which case -ac won't work
> as expected.
> Fix your mpegts including the PMT pid in it.

Now you've confused him. ;)

Regards,
R.

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