Cannot find m4a files

Hi,

I have a lot of m4a files. When building the library Serviio, does not find any of my m4a files - they are not listed in the Serviio log file.

When I run the AV media controller tool, the directories containing m4a files do not show up.

If I rename any of the .m4a files to .mp3, they do show up, and play properly on my client device.

I could rename all the m4a files to mp3 as a workaround, but would prefer not to do this as this may cause some problems/confusion later.

Having read of some earlier problems with "dots" in the filename, I also tried to rename some of the files so they did not contain any extra dots, but this did not help.

If I run ffmpeg on one of the m4a files as an example:

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg.exe -i "D:\Media\Music\Music\Metallica\(1983) Kill 'Em All\01. Hit The Lights.m4a"
ffmpeg version N-42368-gbf53863 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jul 10 2012 03:40:45 with gcc 4.6.3
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --extra-libs='-lrtmp -lpolarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm' --arch=x86 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enab
le-pthreads --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --pkg-config=pkg-config
libavutil 51. 64.100 / 51. 64.100
libavcodec 54. 33.100 / 54. 33.100
libavformat 54. 15.102 / 54. 15.102
libavdevice 54. 1.100 / 54. 1.100
libavfilter 3. 1.100 / 3. 1.100
libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100
libswresample 0. 15.100 / 0. 15.100
Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.0 : stereo
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'D:\Media\Music\Music\Metallica\(1983) Kill 'Em All\01. Hit The Lights.m4a':
Metadata:
major_brand : M4A
minor_version : 0
compatible_brands: M4A mp42isom
artist : Metallica
title : Hit The Lights
album : Kill 'Em All
genre : Metal
date : 1983
track : 1
comment :
album_artist : Metallica
Duration: 00:04:17.27, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1015 kb/s
Stream #0:0(eng): Audio: alac (alac / 0x63616C61), 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 10
14 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified

My version of Serviio, from the logfile is:

2012-08-24 08:15:04,867 INFO [MediaServer] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
2012-08-24 08:15:04,870 INFO [MediaServer] Serviio DLNA media streaming server v 1.0.1 (rev. 6dbf7c6e334f+)
2012-08-24 08:15:04,870 INFO [MediaServer] Petr Nejedly 2009-2012
2012-08-24 08:15:04,870 INFO [MediaServer] http://www.serviio.org
2012-08-24 08:15:04,870 INFO [MediaServer]
2012-08-24 08:15:04,870 INFO [MediaServer] Java 1.6.0_31-Sun Microsystems Inc.
2012-08-24 08:15:04,870 INFO [MediaServer] OS Windows 7 amd64 6.1
2012-08-24 08:15:04,874 INFO [MediaServer] File encoding: windows-1252
2012-08-24 08:15:04,875 INFO [MediaServer] Headless mode enabled: true
2012-08-24 08:15:04,876 INFO [MediaServer] User home dir: C:\
2012-08-24 08:15:04,876 INFO [MediaServer] Temp dir: C:\Windows\TEMP\
2012-08-24 08:15:04,876 INFO [MediaServer] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Anybody have an suggestions as a next step to debug this?

Thanks for any help!

[grolschie]

Hi. Serviio supports .m4a files, but not Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) .m4a files.

[Illico]

https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/i ... e-lossless

Thanks very much for your help guys, I see the issue now.

Since my renderer (an iphone running plugplayer, so no need to transcode) will play the files if I rename them to .mp3, do you think this has a workaround by building a custom profile? Or would the support have to be hardcoded into Serviio?

I will read up on profiles now, but I'm a newbie and would appreciate any opinions on whether such a profile is possible.

[zip]

Serviio doesn't recoignize the lossless format yet, so you won't be able to transcode it.