mplayer and faad or AAC or whatever

Rogue Jedi X · 02-25-2005, 07:27 PM

Hiya.
I was trying to open a matroska file with mplayer the other day and I only got video, but no sound. When I looked at the console, this caught my eye

Code:

Matroska file format detected.
==========================================================================
Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...
Requested audio codec family [faad] (afm=faad) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x4134504D.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================================================

Now, I'm confused. I had problems with mplayer a month back, so I went to their website and downloaded the "all" codec package and that seemed to fix it. I tried that again, thinking maybe the codecs were updated, but no dice. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

acid_kewpie · 02-26-2005, 03:26 AM

the "all" codecs are for all the proprietry win32 codecs, faad etc.. are not restricted by this, so will be available as a normal package. install that first, then rebuild MPlayer. you can see if mplayer is going to build itself with fad support from the configure script output.