Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

[Spoon]

Re: Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

It is quite early days for the nero tagging, if offers more 'features' but for standard tagging you are best staying with iTunes tagging which will work in everything, eventually if there are extra nero fields used by dbpoweramp then only these fields will be written (not the standard replicated with nero tags).

[bengine]

Re: Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

Hiya, @Spoon.

Just wanna report that the Apple Lossless encoder seems quite promising. I converted my collections of lossless format songs (FLAC, Wavpack, and APE) into Apple Lossless, and the converted files can be played in both iTunes and iPod.

But, the playback in iPod is erratic at the moment. If I play the album from song #1, iPod will skip all even number songs, so it'll play #1, #3, #5 and so forth. And if I play the album from song #2, iPod will skip all odd number songs, so it'll play #2, #4, #6 and so forth. :( :(

I never have this problem if I convert the lossless format songs directly using iTunes (by converting those files into WMA Lossless first and let iTunes take care of the rest).

Please help.

Regards,

bengine

[Spoon]

Re: Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

Does anyone else have the above problem, or can test a full album on an ipod?

[CastorTroy]

Re: Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

Will there be the 2pass mode for abr ?

[Spoon]

Re: Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

Not through our implementation (we stream the data thorugh Stdio and this cannot work with 2 pass). You could install Generic CLI and pass the relevant command line.

[bengine]

Re: Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

@spoon,

Some additional info. I've just retried to convert another album from FLAC to Apple Lossless using your encoder, well, the problem still exist for iPod playback. :o

For example, I'm playing the album from song #1. Whenever iPod finished playing the song, there was a huge silence. And upon observation, whenever iPod finished playing song #1, it did try to play song #2, but just couldn't get the song within 3-5sec, hence it'll just to song #3 instead.

Maybe the problem has something to do with the song tagging?

[JeFFJuH]

Re: Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

I am having a problem with this plugin. Whenever I want to convert a large Mp3 (say 100 MB for a 74 minute remix) to 128 Kbit ABR M4A, then the dmcout.m4a file remains in my D:\ disk, and the plugin creates an empty m4a file in the directory where I wanted the output file to be.

[Spoon]

Re: Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

This codec shouldnt use dmcout.m4a as it uses stdout with the nero codec, it is the Nero codec you are using?

[JeFFJuH]

Re: Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

This codec shouldnt use dmcout.m4a as it uses stdout with the nero codec, it is the Nero codec you are using?

I use Nero's CLI codec.

I have installed your beta (as mentioned in the first post of this topic), after that I have extracted all files from the archive that I have downloaded from the Nerodigital.com site, to the Nero Digital Audio directory which the installer created before.

Then I set-up the encoder in dbPowerAMP. Small tracks work fine, but when I convert a large mix (say 80 to 100 MB), the file remains in my D:\dmcout.m4a. I can listen to it, but it doesn't belong there.

[incident]

Re: Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

There definately seems to be an issue with outputting to larger files using this plugin -

I'm converting from FLAC source with "Preserve ID Tags" disabled and "Delete Source After Conversion" enabled, and what I'm finding is that while smaller files convert just fine, anything which produces an output of more than approximately 7mb won't work..

For example I tried converting a 90mb FLAC file to Nero AAC at the standard quality of 0.5 and it wouldn't go through, leaving behind both the Original FLAC file and the "~dmcout.m4a" file.. When I drop the quality to 0.25 it works exactly as expected, with the resulting M4A having a filesize of 6.5mb and a bitrate of 72kbps.

I've tried this on several combinations of files, and am getting the same result each time..

[Spoon]

Re: Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

How big was the left ~dmcout.m4a file?

[JeFFJuH]

Re: Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

How big was the left ~dmcout.m4a file?

I convert my files @ 128 Kbit ABR, so when I convert a, let's say 80 minute mix, it will be around 77 MB. The file itself is just complete, except the file isn't tagged, it doesn't have the correct filename and it isn't at the correct location.

[incident]

Re: Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

I convert my files @ 128 Kbit ABR, so when I convert a, let's say 80 minute mix, it will be around 77 MB. The file itself is just complete, except the file isn't tagged, it doesn't have the correct filename and it isn't at the correct location.

Yep, I also get complete files left behind as ~dmcout.m4a (so variable sizes from 7mb upwards), it's just they're not renamed, and the original source file isn't deleted. I don't use tagging so can't comment on that..

[Spoon]

Re: Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

If you play the ~dmcout file is there audio missing from the end?

[incident]

Re: Beta: mp4 Codec pack (Release 4)

Nope, as far as I can tell the ~dmcout files seem to be complete, they're just not getting renamed when the conversion is done. There's no error messages or anything like that, it's just that the files aren't renamed & deleted as expected.