Re: Can't seek in AAC files

[Johannes W. <ja...@mo...>]

Hello Philipp,

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:19:26PM +0200, Philipp Hartwig wrote:
> I often download YouTube videos with youtube-dl[1]. Normally the audio 
> stream is in the AAC format which I then extract with
> 
> $ ffmpeg -i foo.flv -acodec copy foo.aac
> 
> from the downloaded YouTube video foo.flv. cmus will play the file 
> foo.aac but it doesn't seem to be able to seek in it: The seek commands 
> simply don't show any effect.

Sorry, there is of course a much simpler solution to your problem:
$ MP4Box -add foo.aac foo.m4a

This doesn't change the AAC data (no quality loss), and seeking in m4a
files is supported! The MP4Box command is from the "gpac" package.


Johannes