[MPlayer-users] Standalone AAC file decoding not supported

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Saturday 2008-11-08 15:27, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

>On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 03:08:17PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> MPlayer does not seem to currently support playing back streamdumps of 
>> HQ Youtube videos that have an AAC audio stream. Is this known not to 
>> work, or any work in progress to get it fixed?
>
>When you say "fixed" do you mean to imply this is a bug? Because then
>you'd have to explain why you think so.
>
>The man page says:
>> -dumpaudio (MPlayer only)
>>   Dumps  raw  compressed  audio stream to ./stream.dump (useful with MPEG/AC-3, in most other
>>   cases the resulting file will not be playable).
>
>Where "not playable" does really mean "No way _anything_ can play that.
>Really. Impossible."

Oh really? Then why can the standalone programs mpg123 and faad2
decode/play it without any problems?