[SOLVED] No sound with AAC in XBMC only

[ebirah]

Hello! I installed Mageia 3 KDE from a live dvd yesterday, and it's been beyond my wildest dreams aside from this problem: I cannot get any sound from AAC audio streams in XBMC, whatever the container (mkv, mp4) or number of channels. XBMC normally displays stream info for the current file in the bottom right even if sound is configured wrong, it does not do this for AAC audio. Video stream still plays beautifully, and all other audio codecs I've tested work. I've enabled the tainted repo and gotten AAC playback working in MPlayer, but prefer XBMC for speed and video quality. I did not encounter this problem with XBMC Frodo in the last distro I used. I've tested with and without my old XBMC config folder and even created a new user account, to rule out old config files in /home. Also tried KDE, LXDE, and XBMC sessions. My audio setup is nothing fancy, I'm using headphones with onboard audio and have XBMC configured for 2 channel analog out, passthrough and AAC transcoding are off. Have tried most other possible audio setups in XBMC's settings for the heck of it, too.

While researching this, I noticed that Mageia has tainted and non tainted packages of VLC, but not XBMC. Is AAC playback intended in this package, am I doing it wrong, or is this a bug? Should I be asking the XBMC forums about this instead?

Thanks for any assistance!

I was serious about the distro being beyond my wildest dreams, haven't needed to troubleshoot anything else or even install drivers, everything has just worked from the get go. This is the most polished distro I've ever used.

[doktor5000]

Please show the output of

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rpm -qa | grep faad

and

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urpmq --list-media active

[ebirah]

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bash-4.2$ rpm -qa | grep faad
faad2-2.7-6.mga3.tainted
gstreamer1.0-faad-1.0.5-3.mga3.tainted
gstreamer0.10-faad-0.10.23-11.mga3.tainted
lib64faad2-2.7-6.mga3.tainted

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bash-4.2$ urpmq --list-media active
Live Core
Live Nonfree
Core Release
Core Updates
Nonfree Release
Nonfree Updates
Tainted Release
Core 32bit Release
Core 32bit Updates
Nonfree 32bit Release
Nonfree 32bit Updates


I missed tainted updates - added that, updated, and now it works. Will mark the thread solved.

Sorry for the derp. Thanks!