On Saturday, August 24, 2019 09:36:51 AM Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> writes: > > Hi all... > > > >>From mplayer.user mailing list I got no answer... > >> > > $ playfile fantasia_a_due-prova_13_agosto.m4a > > MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-8 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team
... > ...On another PC of mine, with Stretch, the same file is correctly > played... So, I'm guessing (1) that the machine that doesn't play the file is not using Stretch, and (2) therefore it is likely that the machine that doesn't play the file is using a different / earlier version of mplayer> What is the size of file fantasia_a_due-prova_13_agosto.m4a? (Do an ls -al on it and show the result.) I am not an expert on this, but, from what I remember (or think I remember) from other posts in this thread is that an m4a file does not actually contain audio information, but is, more or less, a list of files that do contain the audio info. I suspect the earlier version of mplayer cannot handle an m4a file. What I might do as a workaround, is to try to find the names of the files contained in the m4a file (maybe by "dissecting" the file on Linux (try =strings fantasia_a_due-prova_13_agosto.m4a=> or by reading the file names from the PC which plays the file. And then try playing those files. If that works, add them to a "native" mplayer playlist.
