Package: faad Version: 2.7-8 Severity: normal Tags: upstream faad incorrectly decodes any aac/m4a audio file that was encoded by neroaacenc or itunes or fraunhofer fdkaac/libfdk. This breaks gapless playback.
example: Take an CD such as The Beatles' Abbey Road which plays without gaps. Rip and encode to individual flacs or wavs. The files play without any gap, for example in mpd or with 'mplayer2 -gapless-audio'. Encode the wavs to m4a with faac. Use faad to decode the m4a files to wav i.e. `faad -o out.wav in.m4a` The wavs play without any gap. Now encode the original wavs to m4a but use an encoder other than faac: Use faad to decode the m4a files to wav. Now the wavs play with a gap between each track. Using a different decoder such as neroAacDec on the same files produces wavs which play without gaps. The same problem is in any application which decodes with unpatched libfaad2. I notice Rockbox has patched libfaad and their version properly decodes aac/m4a regardless of which encoder was used. The same files which don't decode gaplessly on my PC with faad or libfaad do decode gaplessly on my portable running Rockbox. I believe Squeezebox also patch libfaad to do the same but I can't confirm it works. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.8.3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages faad depends on: ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libfaad2 2.7-8 faad recommends no packages. faad suggests no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
