Hi all.

Has anyone had any luck getting Xine (or MPlayer) to play AAC+ streams?
For example, here: http://www.di.fm/aacplus/deephouse_low.pls

faad was listed as an audio plugin in Xine's ./configure, so I can't think what's wrong.

Cheers

Dave

I play a few using XMMS. I could not get this one to play, although it did seem to contact the site. XMMS showed it "contacting the server, but there was no sound.

Could you post a link or two for ones you listen to? I'd like to see if any work, or if it is just that stream.

Ta muchly.

Dave

I couldn't firure out how to upload the PLS file, so here are teh contents. Cut and paste this into a file and call it virgin.pls.

[playlist]
numberofentries=2
File1=http://68.142.85.43:80
Title1=(#1 - 139/1000) Virgin Radio Classic Rock, live from London, UK
Length1=-1
File2=http://69.28.128.148:80/stream/vruk_vc_lo
Title2=(#2 - 144/1000) Virgin Radio Classic Rock, live from London, UK
Length2=-1
Version=2

This one is Rock & Roll FM

[playlist]
numberofentries=4
File1=http://205.188.234.38:8030
Title1=(#1 - 47/200) Rock&Roll.FM Powered By Angel Fire Radio(tm)
Length1=-1
File2=http://205.188.234.38:8028
Title2=(#2 - 48/200) Rock&Roll.FM Powered By Angel Fire Radio(tm)
Length2=-1
File3=http://205.188.234.38:8026
Title3=(#3 - 54/200) Rock&Roll.FM Powered By Angel Fire Radio(tm)
Length3=-1
File4=http://205.188.234.38:8074
Title4=(#4 - 182/200) Rock&Roll.FM Powered By Angel Fire Radio(tm)
Length4=-1
Version=2

These tow always work for me. Hope this helps.

Cheers.

All those streams work fine. Having dug around the faad site, it would appear that AAC is supported, but AAC+ isn't, which explains everything. I had previously read that AAC+ was supported, but I can't even find the site I read that on.

Oh well. No AAC+ for me yet.

Cheers for the links.

Dave.

P.S. The broadband ogg streams on that Virgin site sound amazing - better than my FM tuner.

Hmm I tryed to add AAC+ support to XMMS, but failed (aacPlus plugin could not be compiled).

Instead, i was lucky playing AAC+ streams with VLC.

You sould install both, faad2 and faad2-devel packages (I've got mine form livna.org, i suggest using an alternative RPM search engine like rpmseek or pbone.net, instead of yum).

They are neccessary to compile the aacplugin that the xmms homepage provides.
However, like I said above, it doesn't work (It cannot find the 'libfaad' librarys, although they are definately there... (confusing)).

cheers

--polemon

yes works fine with gxine on FC4 using w32 codecs from the mplayer site.