[MPlayer-users] Can't play m4a

[Rodolfo Medina]

Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> writes:

> Rodolfo Medina (12019-08-24):
>> Thnak you...  Unfortunately I can't upload it, because it contains some
>> stuff we wouldn't like to share outside...  Music rehearsing with mistakes
>> and so on...  In order to extract a small piece from the file to upload, on
>> the older machine - the one that plays the file - I then did:
>> 
>>  $ ffmpeg -i fantasia_a_due-prova_13_agosto.m4a -c copy -t 45 output.m4a
>> 
>> and the output.m4a can be played also on the newer machine...
>
> That was to be expected. Just copy the first few megaoctets of the file:
>
> head -c $((2*1024*1024)) fantasia_a_due-prova_13_agosto.m4a > sample.m4a
>
> Regards,


Done.  Thank you.  It's 2.0M.  Shall I upload it here?

Rodolfo