Re: M4A files

Subject	Re: M4A files
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.apps
From	Brian Howlett <news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk>
Date	2025-03-20 23:28 +0000
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On 17 Mar, Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:

> It ought to run in a taskwindow, so it shouldn't be locking the machine
> at all.

It does run in a TaskWindow, so that's probably why there's no indication 
of anything happening.

> I think 250Mb might take a while, especially if you are asking FFMpeg to
> convert the audio to a different format rather than just extracting the
> audio track -- and it is reporting the audio stream as 'aac', which
> isn't a format that RISC OS players seem to like.

It was just a 3.5 minute voice recording off my phone.

[snip]

>> I've been searching the web for the latest version of !FFMpeg to no avail
>> - it looks like a number of people have been working on it. The link to
>> <http://www.users.on.net/~belles/software/ffmpeg/> in the StrongHelp
>> manual for the version currently installed here isn't working.

> No, I found the same thing (about the link).

> I did come across a mention of a later version, which people were saying
> was ten times faster, but since I got the impression that it was a
> command-line only port and I really don't know what I am doing with the
> RISC OS !FFMpeg as it is, I didn't attempt to download it.

> A very quick check confirms that the link to that version is at least
> still valid:
> https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/5/topics/16195
> https://www.riscosports.co.uk/eabi/

I did find that as well, but have the same issue with CL apps.

Since just changing the filetype to MP4 got things going, I'm not worried.

Thanks for the advice.
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Brian Howlett - Email to From: address deleted unseen
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  Re: M4A files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-03-17 04:20 +0000
    Re: M4A files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-03-17 04:37 +0000
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