N900 unable to play .mp4 audio files?
 

Hey,

I just downloaded an audio podcast in .mp4 format.

It is recognized by the media player, even its ID3-Tags (cover, title etc.) but when I hit the play button nothing happens at all.

Is there any codec I need? I was wondering because I thought the N900 would support .mp4 files out of the box :confused:

Suggestions?

Re: N900 unable to play .mp4 audio files?
 

good question, think i have hit the same problem, have 3 podcasts working fine, but one (Chris moyles one) just sits on the play screen and doesnt actually play :(

Re: N900 unable to play .mp4 audio files?
 

I also have that problem. This might be a bug since the N900 should play them.

Re: N900 unable to play .mp4 audio files?
 

mpeg4 is a container format. You need to find out what the audio stream is encoded in, or provide a link so others can have a look

Re: N900 unable to play .mp4 audio files?
 

mine ends up in the video folder...

Re: N900 unable to play .mp4 audio files?
 

.mp4 is also a standard video format container. m4a is often used for audio content.

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here's the link to the file:
http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/Dru...A8/show127.m4a

drum and bass arena podcast

hope it works, not at home, had to get it with my n900 ;)

oh and thanks for helping

edit: okay this one seems to be an m4a file!? the episodes on my computer are all .mp4s..

Re: N900 unable to play .mp4 audio files?
 

The file is at:
http://www.619bearcast.com/podcasts/...arcast-001.m4a

According to iTunes it is a AAC file encoded with GarageBand.

Re: N900 unable to play .mp4 audio files?
 

Has anyone worked out how to get this playing yet?

Re: N900 unable to play .mp4 audio files?
 

I'm having trouble with m4a files too. I have a whole folder of them in the MyDocs/music/Alison\ Moyet/Singles (for example).
When I use the file manager to view that folder, they're all there, and if I try to open them, Music Player opens and plays them just fine, but I don't see any of them if I launch Music Player and browse them.

Is there some method of getting them into music player?

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Has anyone tried MPlayer (KMplayer)?

Here are a couple posts I made about having trouble playing m4v (dunno if it is related):

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...316#post571316

this one in particular:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...0&postcount=99

Re: N900 unable to play .mp4 audio files?
 

Well, I'm not having trouble *playing* them...it's just seeing them inside Music Player. My m4a files play just fine if I launch them from File Manager....

I'm starting to wonder if this is a meta-data problem (ie they are listed *somewhere* in Music Player, but not under the expected album/artist/etc), and am using MussOrgsky to investigate (but can't seem to edit them).

EDIT: I was correct. All my the files are placed in '(unkonwn album)' album right at the bottom. My mistake was expecting Music Player to see that they were placed in directories named 'Artist/Album' (as in iTunes) and figure it out from there, but it seems it only uses the tags.

Re: N900 unable to play .mp4 audio files?
 

Hello to all,

very strange all my Music is in m4a format (eaac) due its smaller and quality rest more or less the same.
I even transform the files with different Programms and out from different Formats (Audio CD MP3 etc)
Never had a issue with the normal Media Player.

So as it has been mentioned before as it is a container Format, it can be that there is a codec used which the N900 can not understand and is not supported.

So perhaps check to transform the file into a other Format or run it over a compiler again.

BR

Wolfpac

Re: N900 unable to play .mp4 audio files?
 

I dont think there's anything known as ".mp4 Audio", theres only .mp4 video.

Re: N900 unable to play .mp4 audio files?
 

.mp4 is a container, MPEG-4 is a patented collection of methods defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data (wikipedia). Variations of it are used in xvid, divx, h.264 etc.


being a container, .mp4 files can contain either video, audio, or both (and more than one stream for each of them) as well as multiple subtitle streams.
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Re: N900 unable to play .mp4 audio files?
 

I'm a fairly heavy gPodder user for podcasts, and like you I've got a bunch of podcasts that have moved from mp3 to m4a and don't work any more. The files that the built-in Media Player doesn't seem to like are the ones with changing artwork and subtitles.

There have been a number of bugs in Bugzilla for this, but I don't think it's fixed yet: Bug 6640

However, I've recently discovered that you can play these .m4a files through Panucci, with integration into gPodder too. KMPlayer also works, but has UI issues. Perhaps worth a try - I've made the switch.

Re: N900 unable to play .mp4 audio files?
 

so.. why mediaplayer authors used gstreamer, not ffmpeg? I had same problem related to this topic. My .m4a files includes audio in ALAC (Apple loseless audio codec, same with FLAC, and opensource too), which perfectly played by, 4ex, mplayer with ffalac. Now I have to use SMPlayer instead stock mediaplayer, it's not useful and comfort, because SMPlayer eats a lot of CPU and RAM, which on my N900 not in prosperity...