I understand what you are saying, and your example is helpful.
I think perhaps I have been misunderstanding the nature of this particular encoding error. I had understood it to be an error in encoding some audio at an arbitrary and random timecode. What I now speculate may be happening is that the error is at a fixed place near the end of the file, perhaps in some kind of footer. Otherwise, I would expect some variability in when the file stops playing, and it is very consistent. I haven't been able to find adequate documentation of the ALAC format yet to see how a file is structured, so I haven't really validated this idea. Some more information: ffmpeg gives this error when transcoding one of the example files to aac: [alac @ 0x55794a5e1c40] invalid samples per frame: 0/s speed=79.3x Error while decoding stream #0:0: Invalid data found when processing input Of note, I can transcode the original source flac with ffmpeg with no issues, so the error seems to have been introduced when I used XLD to transcode from FLAC to ALAC. What's **really** interesting is that I can use ffmpeg to transcode the original source FLAC and the XLD-transcoded (with error) ALAC both to aac, and end up with *identical* files, despite the error thrown by ffmpeg when transcoding the ALAC file. That is to say, an md5 hash of each outputted file is identical. Both play to the very last note outside of LMS, and I haven't yet tried them within LMS. This suggests to me that the payload of the misencoded file is intact and that the error is in a container structure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ benh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6732 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114439 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
