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Does someone know how I can play HE-AAC multi-channel in VLC? When I use the spdif-out it's just plain stereo-sound (ac3/DD5.1 is no problem).

I'm not sure if FAAD2 is able to decode multichannel HE-AACv1 (SBR), or at least if VLC supports it?v

How many channels if VLC registering in the stream info (press "Ctrl+I" and click on the "Advanced information" tab)?

Cheers, Arite.

VLC sees 8 channels. A little bit strange, there are only 6 in the input-file.

Doesn't anybody know how to play these kind of multi-channel streams? It would be a great help, because I have dozens of films with this audio-codec.

Those issues should be fixed in devleopment versions.

That's great news. Nice work!

ps: when is the next edition of vlc planned to come out?

HE-AAC doesn't work in new version. Is that normal?

Next version means 0.9.0

Ow, I tought this was it. And around wich period is 0.9.0 coming out? March, April, ...?

Nobody want to answer my question?

Is see that the amount of channels are being displayed are correct (6 channels, instead of 8 ). So in the latest nightly it's probably possible to output aac through your optical audio-port. I wonder if you developers got plans to built an on-the-fly aac ==> ac3 converter? Not much home-cinema sets support aac, so that would be great if vlc would do the converting. Like it's possible in Windows with certain codec-set (like community pack). It would really mean a lot for the mac-platform, because now a days a lot of movies are being supplied with multi-channel (he-)aac-audio. Even the ones from Apple self!

well, it should be already possible with VLC.

Does it has to be activated or something? I used the latest nightly, and my homecinema-set is only receiving 2 channels. SPDIF output is on, so is Force Dolby Surround. AC3 works perfect.

ps: is it normal that you can't change the advanced preferences is the nightly? Only the new simple one is usable.