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Okay, so after mplayer classic was taking like 30 seconds to load any file w/ embedded subtitles and only able to play 90% of my mkv media, I decided to try out VLC. At first, I liked the speed, but the video, subtitles, and audio had problems refreshing when I skipped ahead. To solve this I enabled "use system codecs" and things went smoothly and fast.

However, when I try to open a mkv file in the following format: 1280x720 H.264 AAC w/ embeded subtitles, I can't get the audio to play. I tried setting everything back to default settings, no use. All files encoded in aac don't work apparently...

I opened up codec details, and it shows Stream 1: Audio, mp4a, 2.0 AAC, 2ch, 48k Hz
However, statistics tab shows all 0's for audio

So it sees the audio right?

The same exact file plays in mPlayer Classic, although requires a horrid 1-3min delay between opening the file, and actually playing.

Computer is a Intel U7300 w/ 4gbram running windows 7 x32.
Codecs installed on computer is the latest release of ffdshow and whatever Adobe CS4 installed

This is so frustrating, VLC can detect the audio stream, why does it not play the audio?

Can you share the file?

How do I share a 200mb file? I tried several different media files, none of which worked in VLC, all of which were encoded in AAC. I think it's the AAC / mp4a playback problem. mplayer works fine with these files, but takes 1-3 min to load for some reason after I installed CS4.

For reference, the files I tried were:
To aru kagaku no railgun - subbed by Chihiro
Bakemonogatari - subbed by gg
11 eyes - subbed by Fubuki
Macroxx Frontier - subbed by AonE
All are h.264, 1280x720, AAC

I tried other h.264 files, and all non-AAC audio files worked.

rapidshare.

Hmm stupid perhaps, but did you check that the audio channel was selected?

Here's a torrent link. I can't access rapidshare right now, will have to upload it tomorrow is RS is required.

http://torrage.com/torrent/BD3851EA6697 ... 5E.torrent

All files encoded the same way.

Here are the RS links:
http://rapidshare.com/files/375308061/_ ... 1.rar.html
MD5: 5B28F29FC399E485574836D64E8F7052

http://rapidshare.com/files/375304808/_ ... 2.rar.html
MD5: A8FC236276BB26C82724AA57349A3FED

And yes, I do have the audio channel selected. I compared the settings to a file that was working (non-AAC) and the settings were the same. I even tried all the different audio-out methods like directx, wav, etc., each after a restart of VLC no difference.

Ok, it works perfectly fine in VLC 1.1.0-pre1 on Linux here

Just tested on Windows.
Latest VLC 1.1.0 fix the issue. This is a bug in all 1.0.x versions and early VLC 1.1.0 versions.

Found it... I:ll try the 1.1 version

Thanks.