[gentoo-user] xmms doesn't see mp4 plugin

[gentoo-user] xmms doesn't see mp4 plugin

[darren kirby]

Hi all,

A couple of weeks ago xmms stopped recognizing m4a/mp4 files, and instead of 
playing them it just opened up the file dialogue, as it does with all files 
it doesn't recognize. Today I finally looked into why this may be happening.

Now, as best as I can tell the way to enable this is to install faad2 with the 
xmms USE flag set, which I did have. Indeed, the needed plugins were 
in  /usr/lib/xmms/Input/

Just for giggles, I re-emerged faad2, as the plugins were dated from before it 
stopped working, and it updated/rebuilt:

/usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmp4.so
/usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmp4.la
/usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmp4.a

However, when looking at the input plugins tab in xmms preferences, they don't 
even show up. The Flac, Vorbis, cdaudio et al plugins in the same directory 
do show up.

Does anyone have an idea here? Is it a faad2 bug, xmms bug? Am I missing 
something?

Thanks,
-d
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Re: [gentoo-user] xmms doesn't see mp4 plugin

[Wolfgang Illmeyer]

Am Mittwoch, 20. September 2006 00:57 schrieb darren kirby:
> /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmp4.so

> However, when looking at the input plugins tab in xmms preferences, they
> don't even show up. The Flac, Vorbis, cdaudio et al plugins in the same
> directory do show up.

This is probably a broken dependency of the mp4 input plugin. Try running xmms 
from the command line or running ldd -r on libmp4.so to see what is missing.
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Re: [gentoo-user] xmms doesn't see mp4 plugin

[darren kirby]

quoth the Wolfgang Illmeyer:
> Am Mittwoch, 20. September 2006 00:57 schrieb darren kirby:
> > /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmp4.so
> >
> > However, when looking at the input plugins tab in xmms preferences, they
> > don't even show up. The Flac, Vorbis, cdaudio et al plugins in the same
> > directory do show up.
>
> This is probably a broken dependency of the mp4 input plugin. Try running
> xmms from the command line or running ldd -r on libmp4.so to see what is
> missing.

Hi Wolfgang,

Thanks to your advice I got it working. Running ldd I get: "undefined symbol: 
MP4GetTrackAudioType"

Which led me to this:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123569

Which has been labled FIXED and RESOLVED, however, the current stable version 
of the faad2 ebuild has not applied the patch that fixes the issue, so I 
don't really see how the bug has been resolved...

Anyway, I am now able to play m4a/mp4 files in xmms again.

Thanks for the help,
-d
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