Unable to Play E-AC-3 Files in .M4A Container.

[instamatics]

Steps to reproduce the problem

• Drag E-AC-3 into DeaDBeeF.
• DeaDBeeF log states "ERROR: could not load: /home/vivienne/Downloads/folklore (deluxe version) - [2020]/2. cardigan.m4a"

What's going on? Describe the problem in as much detail as possible.

Hello! I'm attempting to play music encoded in E-AC-3 and I get the error attached when I attempt to play any file.

I followed the steps listed in this comment from 2016 to make sure it wasn't an FFMPEG issue rather than a DeaDBeeF issue and it works just fine when played using ffplay.

#1578 (comment)

I've been messing around with this for about a day or so now and I'm not sure what to do, honestly. 😅😅

Thank you.

Information about the software:

Deadbeef version: 1.9.6
OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240823

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

This one is a bit tricky.. Static builds of deadbeef probably don't support this audio codec, but if you build deabbeef locally with your own ffmpeg -- it may potentially work. On our side, in order to make this work -- it requires rebuilding ffmpeg with appropriate flags to support this codec. I'll give it a try.

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Fixed in latest build.