Subject: Re: [LAU] encoding aac/m4a for wii

From: Pieter Palmers <pieterp@...> · Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009 - 4:14 pm

Atte André Jensen wrote:

quoted text> Hi

>

> We got a wii for christmas, and it seems it can only handle audio in

> "aac (.m4a)" format. However I have no experience with this format, but

> I found faac and did "faac someaudio.wav", which produced someaudio.aac

> and I also made a copy with extension .m4a. However the wii couldn't

> find any audio files if I copied the .aac-file to the sd-card. If I

> copied the .m4a file the files showes up in photo channel, but the wii

> can't play them (something with "wrong format").

>

> Any ideas and/or experiences with encoding for the wii in particular or

> aac/m4a in general?

> 
I think you need the '-w' option for faac to wrap the file in a m4a

container. At least that helped to make things work for my phone.
Greets,
Pieter

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