From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 15 23:52:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6C616A420 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:52:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC2543D45 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:52:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAFNqEOU087854; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:52:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id jAFNpuur087853; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:51:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:51:52 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Lowell Gilbert Message-ID: <20051115235152.GA87833@thought.org> References: <20051115211615.GA86761@thought.org> <443blxzigs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <443blxzigs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: aacPlus audio stream? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:52:45 -0000 On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 04:53:07PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Gary Kline writes: > > > Does FBSD have any ports that can play the new gee-whiz > > aacPlus audio? > > aacPlus is a trade name (of the original inventors, I think) for the > "High Efficiency" AAC format as standardized by the MPEG folks. So > you might have more luck looking for "HE-AAC". > > I understand that vlc (multimedia/vlc) supports it, but I haven't > tried it. vlc seems to use faac/faad, though, so probably other > faac-based applications should be able to do it too. Hey, thanks, you guys. (I was wondering about wjat the hell "HE-ACC" meant :-) ah, life.... gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix