Workaround for broken(?) m4a files from ffmpeg, was Re: [PATCH] Output AAC as M4A for iTunes with metadata tags

[richard]

On Sat Apr 9 10:08 Simon Nash wrote:

>
> There has been a recent change to ffmpeg to use the 4-byte length
> format(see 
> http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2011-March/035858.html).
> This is included in the 0.6.90-rc0 release of ffpmeg, according to the
> changelog (http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.6.90-rc0.changelog).
> So files produced using this release of ffmpeg should work OK in the
> Marantz CD player (I haven't tried this).

Using that release of ffmpeg, files do not work in the Marantz player. I
have tried it. It was referred to earlier:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2011-March/001194.html

I am now using a later version of ffmpeg: 

FFmpeg version git-N-28888-g6f73d5e, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg
developers built on Apr  5 2011 16:33:41 with gcc 4.2.4 (Ubuntu
4.2.4-1ubuntu4)
 
and have qt-faststart installed.

I cannot play m4a files downloaded with get_iplayer without using Jon's
script. 

@ Simon
I can send you m4a files downloaded today with and without using Jon's
script if you wish to test further.