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HE-AAC support

Postby Wazof » 09 Jan 2008 10:51

It would be nice if HE-AAC mutli-channel (5.1) would be supported in VLC (Mac version to be precise). Now I have to start my MacBook up in Windows, and use a different video-player. I like VLC (certainly after the dts-solution), so it's a pitty I can't use it. Someone knows if the team is working on this?

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Re: HE-AAC support

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 10 Jan 2008 00:04

HE-AAC should work. Samples ?
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Re: HE-AAC support

Postby Wazof » 10 Jan 2008 13:20

No, only together with a movie. It's Nero HE-AAC 6ch ~192kbps. It's been recognized as 8 channels in VLC, and the output (even with spdif-out activated) is stereo-sound. I've tested a lot of movies, but there wasn't one that worked.

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Re: HE-AAC support

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 10 Jan 2008 18:38

samples ?
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Re: HE-AAC support

Postby Wazof » 10 Jan 2008 21:21

I don't got any samples because I don't use the HE-AAC compression. But I tried to take the audio-track from the .mkv-file but it doesn't work. Only dts and ac3-tracks can be extracted.

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Re: HE-AAC support

Postby VLC_help » 11 Jan 2008 18:52

What tool you tried (mkv extract part)?

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Re: HE-AAC support

Postby Wazof » 12 Jan 2008 17:07

It was something like MKVToolnix. But it crashes when I load a mkv with HE-AAC (no problems when I load mkv's with dts or ac3).

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Re: HE-AAC support

Postby VLC_help » 12 Jan 2008 19:52

Virtualdubmod might work (if you have access to Windows machine).

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Re: HE-AAC support

Postby Wazof » 13 Jan 2008 11:13

And is it possible to take a part out of the audio-track with that tool? Because otherwise I would have more than one hour of audio.

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Re: HE-AAC support

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Re: HE-AAC support

Postby Wazof » 14 Jan 2008 14:03

Ok, I will try to to make a sample. But you guys are sure it's possible to play multi-channel (5.1) HE-AAC audio in VLC for Mac? Because for Windows there are only plugins who can AAC change into AC3.

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Re: HE-AAC support

Postby VLC_help » 15 Jan 2008 14:52

5.1 (and 7.1) should work but channel order might be wrong. And Nero Showtime handles 5.1 AAC audio without issues and Quicktime should also handle 5.1 AAC inside MOV container (many Apple trailers have 5.1 or 7.1 AAC).
http://www.grigio.org/howto_play_aac_5_1_over_spdif
that pages has few samples you can try.

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Re: HE-AAC support

Postby Wazof » 15 Jan 2008 16:33

OK, I've downloaded some Apple-trailers with AAC 5.1. But when I play them with Quicktime and VLC, there isn't any DD 5.1 output. Just sound through the left/right+center speakers. No surround-sound. I there some option that I didn't activated?

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Re: HE-AAC support

Postby VLC_help » 16 Jan 2008 17:03

AAC ain't Dolby Digital. They are both completely different formats. With AC3filter you can get AAC -> DD conversion on fly, but it doesn't work with VLC and VLC hasn't that option build in. Only real option is sound card / motherboard that has Dolby Live support if you want to do AAC 5.1 -> Dolby 5.1 with VLC.

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Re: HE-AAC support

Postby Wazof » 16 Jan 2008 19:27

Ok, I tought it would be something like that. That's why I put this in the feature requests. Isn't it possible to put this in VLC, or are there to many copyrights or something, so you can't use such an ac3-filter.

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Re: HE-AAC support

Postby VLC_help » 17 Jan 2008 20:08

AC3Filter is Open source, so yes, someone could implement same feature to VLC. Problem is that currently even SPDIF in VLC is broken for some users and without proper fixes and testing, adding this option might cause even more issues.

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Re: HE-AAC support

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 10 Feb 2008 20:05

VLC channels order for AAC will be fixed in next versions.
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