From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 1 11:39:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B819B16A4CE for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 11:39:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rrcs-midsouth-24-172-16-118.biz.rr.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB5443D5A for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 11:39:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) i41IctNW005588; Sat, 1 May 2004 14:38:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Peter In-Reply-To: <20040501182914.GA37247@gee.kz> References: <20040501182914.GA37247@gee.kz> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-kGIsV2jh4/U1865Jg0LA" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1083436739.56185.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 14:39:00 -0400 cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: Getting rhythmbox-0.8.2 to play nicely with m4a X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 18:39:01 -0000 --=-kGIsV2jh4/U1865Jg0LA Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 14:29, Peter wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I'm sorry if this goes against the charter of this list, but I thought I'= d share what I learned today with others. >=20 > I use a mixed envioronment of OS and hardware at home, and ended up decid= ing on m4a for music formats for space reasons on my iPod. >=20 > I like to be able to play audio on my -CURRENT machine, and like the way = rhythmbox works, so I decided to get m4a working with it. This is what I di= d. >=20 > The sparse documentation for rhythmbox says that the mp4.h files from faa= d are what work with rhythmbox, but I found that mpeg4ip is actually what w= orked for me. >=20 > Install ports/multimedia/mpeg4ip > Compile and rhythmbox-0.8.2 with the xine backend, and make sure to edit = the Makefile to include --enable-mp4 as a CONFIGURE_ARG. Why xine? What happens with gstreamer and MP4? > My install of gnome-2.6 does not seem to recognize audio/x-m4a as a MIMEt= ype, so I also had to edit /usr/local/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.x= ml and add the following to it: [patch elided] This is a good thing to submit to FreeDesktop. I checked their CVS repo, and they have not yet added the m4a MIME type. I'm sure they would appreciate this. Note: you will also need to provide a patch to the freedesktop.org.xml.in file (but that's the easy part). Use http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/index.cgi to submit your patch. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-kGIsV2jh4/U1865Jg0LA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAk+7Db2iPiv4Uz4cRAvQjAKCmvR77dxMw6AEYw8ZtOSDXpq3X1wCfRiGA IUDUR4vAyYKsTpl28nGn41c= =+Dge -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-kGIsV2jh4/U1865Jg0LA--