[MPlayer-users] Various MKV issues

[Rolf Ernst]

On 4/14/2010 10:30 AM, ubitux wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:42:49PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>    
>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:24:24PM +0200, ubitux wrote:
>>      
>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:11:11PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 08:49:17PM +0200, ubitux wrote:
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>>>>> First, the sound is not good and there is a big a-v sync issue related to it.
>>>>>            
>>>> That is because IMO the file is broken. It claims to have a sample rate to
>>>> 24 kHz, but it uses AAC with SBR which is 48kHz.
>>>> -demuxer mkv believes what the container says, -demuxer lavf believes what the
>>>> AAC bitstream says. While the later is more likely to work well in practice,
>>>> neither is correct.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Well ok. I don't know how it's handled in git repository but it works fine
>>> on it, maybe there is some kind of patch to get there.
>>>        
>> Sorry, yes, I forgot to mention the most practical "solution", use the faad decoder,
>> e.g. via -ac faad, adding "ac=faad," to the config file, or modifying codecs.conf
>> to prefer it again over ffaac.
>>      
> Works fine, thanks. Is there a reason to prefer ffaac over faad?
>
>    
One is covered by some sort of proprietary license (faac) whereas faad 
is open source (AFAIK).

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