[MPlayer-users] FAAD bitrate never gets set, and channels always fall back to 2 (stereo)

[Nico Sabbi]

On Thursday 08 May 2008 14:06:12 Justin Randall wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> Could a developer in the know or someone with knowledge of the mp4
> container please shed some light on the first issue?  Is this a
> limitation with FAAD, or does mplayer just not support detecting
> the bitrate from the AAC track?
>
> Thanks,
> Justin

in AAC the bitrate is not always specified and/or it may be variable.
You had better give up on this issue or calculate an average value
with mencoder -oac copy ...