On 26/03/10 01:49, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > i have some .m4a files. and i want to play them in rhythmbox. when i > import them into rhythmbox, it says it needs plugin to play mpeg-4 acc > file. i searched the network, and people from ubuntu says a > gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad package would do. but i cannot find > this 'really bad' one on gentoo. i have already emerged > gst-plugins-bad, but i still cannot play these file. > > > I would have thought that gst-plugins-faac would do this for you; try that and see if it helps.
Looking through the changelog for RhythymBox ebuild, and if I understand it all correctly, it appears there used to be a "faad" use flag to automatically pull it in back in 2003-2004, but then in 2007, there was a bug report that caused them to remove it. See http://gentoo-portage.com/media-sound/rhythmbox/ChangeLog and http://bugs.gentoo.org/159538. John Moe
