Hey all,

As the subject says, are there any m4a players available or ways of converting m4a to MP3 (or something else that is supported) for MorphOS?

Ik vond dit op internet:
De FAQman: De extensie 'M4A' hoort bij het bestandsformaat 'MPEG-4 Audio Layer'. Een andere extensie voor dit formaat is 'ALE' en dat is dan weer de afkorting van 'Apple Lossless Encoder'. Achter het internetadres 'www.mp3-cd-converter.com' vindt u de tool 'AltoMP3 Gold' en daarmee converteert u (onder andere) M4A-bestanden naar MP3-bestanden (zie afbeelding) . En met MP3-bestanden kunt u alle kanten op!

VLC kan hier trouwens ook mee overweg.

Heb je Mplayer al geprobeerd? Die speelt heel veel af.....

Groetjes Tom Overtoom

Tom,

I know m4a is MPEG-4 Audio, and my versions of Mplayer (v0.91 'butterfly edition' as well as 1.0pre4 and 1.0pre7) don't play the m4a files I have (radio 538 dance department podcasts in this case, any of them). Or is there a newer Mplayer out that does do this? If so, where is it?

I also know there's plenty of Windows s/w that can handle m4a files, but I'm looking for MOS versions only (otherwise I'd have used the PC version or posted this Q on a PC forum if I still couldn't find it). Or is there a MOS compile of VLC that I missed out on?

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Try this version of MPlayer

Maybe you'll manage to play that file format...

Bye,
AKiLL

http://media-convert.com

Amazing.

Amazing indeed. The only problem is that the URL function doesn't seem to work with any Amiga browsers and even sputnik.
You have to upload the file that you want to convert and this is not good for ppl with a slow connection. Does anyone know a similar service with a working "fetch url" function?

Nice one there, thanks for a link to a newer MPlayer, that one seems to have slipped by me. But it doesn't do it either, the command line shows it's not supported, as it's trying to use the MPEG-2 layer 3 decoder and ends up with:

ISO: File Type Major Brand: Apple iTunes AAC-LC Audio
Seek failed
MOV: missing data (mdat) chunk! Maybe broken file...
MPEG-PS file format detected.
MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header.
Video: Cannot read properties.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
ADecoder init failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
Unknown/missing audio format -> no sound
ADecoder init failed :(
Opening audio decoder: [libmad] libmad mpeg audio decoder
Cannot sync MAD frame
ADecoder init failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Opening audio decoder: [hwmpa] MPEG audio pass-through (fake decoder)
Cannot sync MPA frame: 0
ADecoder init failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x50.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
Audio: no sound
Video: no video


So still no m4a player ...

Try ffmpeg from www.amirus.org.ru/files.html
I don't remember if I compiled in mp4a support there or not, but I suppose that I did.

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I've posted somethig about this in the Sputnik bug thread.