M4A / AAC changes - Which ffmpeg version is required ?

FJuniper fjuniper at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 03:56:06 EDT 2011


Could you please tell this ffmpeg-inexperienced person which version is 
good for Windows (Win7-64 if it matters), and where to find the .exe?  
Thanks.

dinkypumpkin wrote:
> On 16/04/2011 23:22, Martin Williams wrote:
>> My question is - with which version of ffmpeg will this useful
>> 'trick' work ? It would be good to nail this.
>
> Nailing it down could be a big job.  The 0.6 branch diverged from 
> trunk a long time ago, and I couldn't bring myself to root through all 
> the likely suspects in the change log.  I checked random versions back 
> to 13 Oct 2010 (when 0.6.1 was tagged) and they all seemed to work. I 
> believe the last version available to the get_iplayer Windows 
> installer works. This is marked r26400 (17 Jan 2011), which is the  
> last version built from Subversion (thus the integer revision number) 
> before the ffmpeg project moved over to Git.  I'm using version 
> git-ae7a4a1 on OSX.  That is a HEAD build via Homebrew from 9 Apr 
> 2011.  The ffmpeg project has cut a new release 0.6.9-rc0, and 
> although it built OK for me on OSX, all it gave me were a load of 
> segfaults.  The MacPorts and Fink builds are too old, so if you can 
> use Homebrew (not a small thing, I know) and do a HEAD build you 
> should be able to generate a pretty capable version without much 
> sweat.  If you want to roll your own, start with the somewhat outdated 
> instructions below and adjust to suit.
>
> http://users.telenet.be/ffmpegbuilds/index.html
>
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