[MPlayer-dev-eng] external FAAD is broken (was Re: About ADTS header, add adts header to raw aac data)

[Giacomo Comes]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:10:24PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 10:54, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > Il Tuesday 25 September 2007 10:49:58 Nico Sabbi ha scritto:
> > > if(es->extradata && es->extradata_len)
> > > {
> > >  sh->wf = (WAVEFORMATEX *) malloc(sizeof(WAVEFORMATEX) +
> > > es->extradata_len);
> > > sh->wf->cbSize = es->extradata_len;
> > > memcpy(sh->wf + 1, es->extradata,es->extradata_len);
> > > }
> > 
> > btw, there are also other things to consider:
> > - always add --disable-faad-internal to mplayer's configure (use faad 
> > from cvs instead)
> > - there are few rare object types such as BSAC that faad doesn't 
> > decode
> 
> FAAD 2.5 doesn't work on half of the HD trailers from www.apple.com/trailers/ .
> Neither does FAAD CVS, for that matter. All I get is:
> FAAD: Failed to decode frame: Bitstream value not allowed by specification
> repeated tens of times before playback.
> 
> For example with this trailer
> http://images.apple.com/movies/fox/the_simpsons_movie/the_simpsons_movie-tlr_h720p.mov
> I have the problem as seen in the attached 0mplayer.log (silence is played instead
> of audio). With internal FAAD (1mplayer.log), the file plays fine.

I can play fine the audio of this trailer both with internal faad
and with faad2.5 (intel 32bit)

So, saying FAAD2.5 is broken is incorrect.

Giacomo