[PATCH] Output AAC as M4A for iTunes with metadata tags (Shevek)

[Shevek]

On 31 March 2011 14:43, Shevek <shevek at shevek.co.uk> wrote:
> On 31 March 2011 14:35, richard <richard at richsim900.plus.com> wrote:
>> Sorry to spoil things, but the patch to ffmpeg has not solved the
>> problem with my Marantz CD6003. These are the tests I've done.
>
> I am also finding the new version of ffmpeg doesn't work with iTunes -
> it reports an incorrect duration and will not play
>
> This is with an updated version of get_iplayer muxing straight from flv to m4a
>
> I will try the head version of get_iplayer with --raw and see what the
> new version of ffmpeg does with that for iTunes
>

OK, I've now tested with a --raw flv and manually running ffmpeg against it.

I am using the latest build from bizzeh [1] which, as per batguano,
should include the fix [2][3]

However, I find I am still having to do two stage transcode, flv ->
aac -> m4a, to get iTunes to recognise the file properly

FFmpeg version git-N-28701-gcd39549, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg develope
rs
  built on Mar 31 2011 00:01:29 with gcc 4.5.2
  configuration: --arch=x86 --cross-prefix=i686-pc-mingw32- --target-os=mingw32
--prefix=/ffmpeg/builds/git-N-28701-gcd39549-static --enable-memalign-hack --dis
able-shared --enable-static --enable-w32threads --disable-debug --enable-gpl --e
nable-version3 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-zlib --enable-bzlib --enable-
avisynth --enable-postproc --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libvorb
is --enable-libtheora --enable-libspeex --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libo
pencore-amrwb --enable-libxvid --enable-libgsm --enable-libvpx --disable-decoder
=libvpx --enable-librtmp --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-frei0r --enable-libxavs -
-cc='ccache i686-pc-mingw32-gcc'
  libavutil    50. 40. 0 / 50. 40. 0
  libavcodec   52.116. 0 / 52.116. 0
  libavformat  52.104. 0 / 52.104. 0
  libavdevice  52.  4. 0 / 52.  4. 0
  libavfilter   1. 76. 0 /  1. 76. 0
  libswscale    0. 13. 0 /  0. 13. 0
  libpostproc  51.  2. 0 / 51.  2. 0

Shevek

[1] http://www.bizzeh.com/ffmpeg/free/static/
[2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2011-March/001142.html
[3] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2011-March/001145.html