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Re: Any cli player doing m4a?
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 10:51 am
by Snap
I've purged mplayer and ffmpeg and reinstalled ffmpeg. All good now. Downloaded some files from the site posted by bacon above and m4a is finally working. Thanks, guys.
Re: Any cli player doing m4a?
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 10:55 am
by GekkoP
^ Good to know. Mark it solved, please.
Re: Any cli player doing m4a?
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 2:01 pm
by machinebacon
Just a FYI: I have no ffmpeg (and libav-tools) installed and it works OOTB with the mentioned players. There was some chaos about libav-tools being dropped in Debian 7 and/or 8, then people started to add these using the unofficial multimedia repos, now it is back in Debian under the name of ffmpeg. Maybe OP could show the output of:
policy libav-tools
policy ffmpeg
mplayer/mpv/vlc pull in libavcodec-ffmpeg56 , which IMO is the codec that should be used by these players.
Wait a moment. You said deadbeef plays the files? Deadbeef is not in the repos, so you must have added it from an external source? From where if I may ask?
This might explain why ffmpeg doesn't work for other frontends. With purging and reinstalling you replaced the debian-multimedia ffmpeg with the one from unstable, I guess. Probably deadbeef won't play much anymore now. No idea. It's already a mess. deadbeef won't work with the libav versions from the repos (because there are none), it would grab them from debian-multimedia. Pffffff....
Topic closed, I suppose.
Re: Any cli player doing m4a?
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 4:47 pm
by Snap
Oh, dear. so it's that. Lesson learnt. Thanks, bacon.