Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 11:29:14 -0700 From: Peter <peter@gee.kz> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Getting rhythmbox-0.8.2 to play nicely with m4a Message-ID: <20040501182914.GA37247@gee.kz>
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Hello,
I'm sorry if this goes against the charter of this list, but I thought I'd =
share what I learned today with others.
I use a mixed envioronment of OS and hardware at home, and ended up decidin=
g on m4a for music formats for space reasons on my iPod.
I like to be able to play audio on my -CURRENT machine, and like the way rh=
ythmbox works, so I decided to get m4a working with it. This is what I did.
The sparse documentation for rhythmbox says that the mp4.h files from faad =
are what work with rhythmbox, but I found that mpeg4ip is actually what wor=
ked for me.
Install ports/multimedia/mpeg4ip
Compile and rhythmbox-0.8.2 with the xine backend, and make sure to edit th=
e Makefile to include --enable-mp4 as a CONFIGURE_ARG.
My install of gnome-2.6 does not seem to recognize audio/x-m4a as a MIMEtyp=
e, so I also had to edit /usr/local/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml=
and add the following to it:
--- freedesktop.org.xml.orig Sat May 1 11:25:36 2004
+++ freedesktop.org.xml Sat May 1 10:57:28 2004
@@ -2420,6 +2420,25 @@
</magic>
<glob pattern=3D"*.mp3" />
</mime-type>
+ <mime-type type=3D"audio/x-m4a">
+ <comment>MP4 audio</comment>
+ <comment xml:lang=3D"az">MP4 audio fayl=C4=B1</comment>
+ <comment xml:lang=3D"cy">Sain MP4</comment>
+ <comment xml:lang=3D"fi">MP4-=C3=A4=C3=A4ni</comment>
+ <comment xml:lang=3D"fr">audio MP4</comment>
+ <comment xml:lang=3D"hu">MP4-hang</comment>
+ <comment xml:lang=3D"nl">MP4 geluidsbestand</comment>
+ <comment xml:lang=3D"nn">MP4-lyd</comment>
+ <comment xml:lang=3D"no">MP4-lyd</comment>
+ <comment xml:lang=3D"sr">MP4 =D0=B7=D0=B2=D1=83=D1=87=D0=BD=D0=B8 =D0=
=B7=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81</comment>
+ <comment xml:lang=3D"sv">MP4-ljud</comment>
+ <magic priority=3D"50">
+ <match value=3D"0xfffb" type=3D"big32" offset=3D"0" />
+ <match value=3D"ftypM4A" type=3D"string" offset=3D"0" />
+ <match mask=3D"0xfff0" value=3D"0xfff0" type=3D"big16" offset=3D"0" =
/>
+ </magic>
+ <glob pattern=3D"*.m4a" />
+ </mime-type>
<mime-type type=3D"audio/x-mp3-playlist">
<comment>MP3 playlist</comment>
<comment xml:lang=3D"no">MP3-spilleliste</comment>
and run the following as root:
update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime/
After that, everything worked nicely.
Hope that helps others, and I'm sorry if this list isnt the right place to =
send these sorts of things.
Best regards,
Peter
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