[MPlayer-users] Extract AAC Audio Fails

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On Jun 9, 2005, at 13.37, Brent Robertson wrote:

> Hi there;
>
> I use mplayer to extract audio from MOV files and typically it  
> works wonderfully!  However, ones with AAC don't seem to extract  
> properly -- I get a blank WAV.
Can you give us locations of example files? If we can compare what's  
going on with your system to what happens when we try, we can see if  
it's a more general problem.
>   :-(  The audio is played just fine when I view the MOV in  
> mplayer.  This problem seems platform independent -- I get the same  
> results on Linux and MacOS X.  My command line looks like this:
>   [localhost]% mplayer my_file.mov -really-quiet -channels 1 -ao  
> pcm:waveheader:file= my_file.wav -vo null -vc
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                 Get rid of that. We need to see what  
it's spewing.
> dummy
>
> It seems to work just fine for everything else (RM, WMV, MP3, MOV  
> with other audio codecs, etc).
>
> Here's my version info:
>   [localhost]% mplayer -ao help
> MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood (Family: 8, Stepping: 3)
> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
>
> Available audio output drivers:
>         mpegpes Mpeg-PES audio output
>         oss     OSS/ioctl audio output
>         alsa    ALSA-0.9.x-1.x audio output
>         arts    aRts audio output
>         esd     EsounD audio output
>         sdl     SDLlib audio output
>         null    Null audio output
>         pcm     RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output
>
> Any fixes for this?
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