m4a troubles in FreeBSD 7

[Rudy Rucker]

FreeBSD 7 doesn't seem to play m4a files in Rhythmbox.  I can decode m4a 
files with faad on the command line, but Rhythmbox says it doesn't know 
how to play m4a files.  What plugin am I missing?

Also, to get  mpd to play m4a files and not log this error:
  faad2 error: No standard extension payload allowed in DRM
I had to edit the /usr/ports/audio/faad/Makefile and comment out this line:
   #CONFIGURE_ARGS=        --with-drm
then rebuild faad.  Oh, and I had to restart mpd before it would work.
  /usr/local/etc/rc.d/musicpd forcerestart

This 'faad hack' also fixed the xmms-faad plugin error.


- Rudy

Here are my gstreamer plugins:
gstreamer-0.10.14   Development framework for creating media applications
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.2_1 GStreamer plug-in for manipulating MPEG video 
streams
gstreamer-plugins-0.10.14,3 GStreamer written collection of plugins 
handling several me
gstreamer-plugins-a52dec-0.10.6_2,3 Gstreamer ATSC A/52 stream aka AC-3 
(dvd audio) plugin
gstreamer-plugins-aalib-0.10.6_2,3 Gstreamer ascii art plugin
gstreamer-plugins-annodex-0.10.6_1,3 Gstreamer annodex CMML plugin
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.5_2,3 Bad gstreamer-plugins
gstreamer-plugins-bz2-0.10.5_1,3 Gstreamer bz2 plugin
gstreamer-plugins-cairo-0.10.6_2,3 Gstreamer vector graphics plugin
gstreamer-plugins-cdaudio-0.10.5_1,3 Gstreamer frontend to libcdaudio
gstreamer-plugins-cdparanoia-0.10.14_3,3 Gstreamer CDDA extraction (aka 
audio ripping) plugin
gstreamer-plugins-core-0.10_9 Core set of typical audio and video 
gstreamer-plugins
gstreamer-plugins-dts-0.10.5_3,3 Gstreamer dts plugin
gstreamer-plugins-dv-0.10.6_2,3 Gstreamer dv plugin
gstreamer-plugins-dvd-0.10.6_1,3 Gstreamer dvd plugin set
gstreamer-plugins-esound-0.10.6_2,3 Gstreamer enlightenment sound 
library plugin
gstreamer-plugins-faac-0.10.5_2,3 Gstreamer MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AAC 
encoder plugin
gstreamer-plugins-faad-0.10.5_4,3 Gstreamer MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AAC 
decoder plugin
gstreamer-plugins-flac-0.10.6_2,3 Gstreamer free lossless audio 
encoder/decoder plugin
gstreamer-plugins-gconf-0.10.6_4,3 Gstreamer gconf plugin
gstreamer-plugins-gnomevfs-0.10.14_2,3 Gstreamer gnomevfs plugin
gstreamer-plugins-gnonlin-0.10.9 Gstreamer lib for writing non-linear 
audio and video
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.6,3 Good gstreamer-plugins
gstreamer-plugins-gsm-0.10.5_2,3 Gstreamer gsm encoding/decoding plugin
gstreamer-plugins-hal-0.10.6_1,3 Gstreamer hal plugin
gstreamer-plugins-ivorbis-0.10.5_3,3 Gstreamer integer only Ogg Vorbis 
decoder plugin
gstreamer-plugins-jack-0.10.5_1,3 Gstreamer low-latency audio server plugin
gstreamer-plugins-jpeg-0.10.6_2,3 Gstreamer jpeg encoder/decoder plugin
gstreamer-plugins-ladspa-0.10.6_2,3 Gstreamer ladspa (Linux Audio 
Developer's Simple Plugin API
gstreamer-plugins-lame-0.10.6_2,3 Gstreamer mp3 encode plugin
gstreamer-plugins-libcaca-0.10.6_3,3 Gstreamer color ascii art plugin
gstreamer-plugins-libmms-0.10.5_2,3 Gstreamer mms:// and mmsh:// plugin
gstreamer-plugins-libpng-0.10.6_2,3 Gstreamer png plugin
gstreamer-plugins-mad-0.10.6_3,3 Gstreamer mp3 decoder plugin
gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0.10.0 Gstreamer Plugins Mp3 decoder meta-port
gstreamer-plugins-mpeg2dec-0.10.6_2,3 Gstreamer mpeg decode plugin
gstreamer-plugins-ogg-0.10.14_2,3 Gstreamer Ogg bitstream plugin
gstreamer-plugins-pango-0.10.14_2,3 Gstreamer pango textoverlay plugin
gstreamer-plugins-theora-0.10.14_3,3 Gstreamer theora plugin
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.6,3 Ugly gstreamer-plugins
gstreamer-plugins-vorbis-0.10.14_3,3 Gstreamer vorbis encoder/decoder plugin
gstreamer-plugins-xvid-0.10.5_1,3 Gstreamer xvid plugin