Pascal Hibon wrote: > I honestly have no idea. > CD's ripped with iTunes always work fine with piCorePlayer. Files bought > through Qobuz sometimes don't want to play on piCorePlayer while they > play just fine in iTunes. When that happens I simply have iTunes rewrite > the file. After that, they play fine on piCorePlayer. > I can't remember the exact phrasing but someone on this forum (a long > time ago) mentioned that ALAC files can be constructed in different > ways. And piCorePlayer seems to be picky at how they are constructed. MP4 (doesn't matter which codec) files can be streamable or not - streamable have an index into the the audio stream at the start (i.e. a table of pointers to where in the file the audio stream starts and various time points) - if this index is at the end (usually done by single pass encoders) then if the file is streamed to an ALAC/AAC capable player - the player doesnt know where the audio begins until the end of the file is sent.
Rewriting the file with a two pass encoder usually puts the index at the start of the file. ffnpeg calls "streamable" - "mov flags faststart" as "mov" is an MP4 atom for the audio part. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110011 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
