Old 08-15-2015, 05:57 PM   #1
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Recently I tried to import some .AAC files into Reaper, didn't work.

However changing extension to .MP4 (the container for .AAC afaik), importing and playing them in Reaper was no problem.

So why not allow importing .AAC directly (would save the change extension step), or is there a potential problem I don't see ?

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Old 08-15-2015, 07:55 PM   #2
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Thanks, but I'm not sure I can follow your reply.

I mean they files play fine already now in Reaper just by renaming from .AAC to .MP4 without me having downloaded an additional codec or anything.

Are you saying it's a licensing issue if Reaper would allow import of .AAC files directly but it's not if the user first changes the extension to .MP4 and then imports ?

If so, why ?

From my understanding it's still the same files playing back, just 'put in a container format' or so, by changing the extension.

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Old 08-16-2015, 07:51 AM   #3
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the reason is that REAPER only identified files by the extension and not by
the raw header.
So if REAPER not intern registered the extension(example AAC) the file dont load and or play.
Although REAPER actually could because
REAPER registered intern mp4 container and your aac and the header for the aac stream of your file appears to be the same as needed to load/play aac streams inside an mp4 container extension.

REAPER really need the capacity to identified files by file header and not only by the file extension.
Which REAPER actual not has.
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Old 08-16-2015, 08:27 AM   #4
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Thanks ELP, this seems to make sense to me (I haven't much knowledge about the formats and containers).

A similar thing just came up here recently btw.

http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=158478

I think it would be nice if Reaper recognizes all playable files automatically without the user having to rename first, either by identifying file header as you say or, which would probably easier to implement, make Reaper also recognize these extensions, I don't care really.

But luckily I've found an utility to batch-change file extensions, so it's not that of a big issue.
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Old 08-16-2015, 08:54 AM   #5
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yes of course(register) but a safer and more flexible way is the capacity to identified files also by the file header.
(maybe as an switch-option to save resources)

A Header is always a Header... file extensions can lie.

And not all aac that you simply rename in an mp4 extension play after that.

Another bad example is mts m2ts container
If i want to load these inside REAPER, i first have to repack the streams inside these containers in an mkv container.
(Ok i have to admit that i always do that because the Overhead is much lower etc.pp)
But the raw streams inside these containers remains the same as before.
Only after that(no matter which way i load vdeos) i can load this with REAPER. That´s a little bit..st...
So better also the possibility to identified by header.

Alot- hmmm better other Apps can do identified by header.
Only as an little example because i must/have to call that
is the simple but brilliant XMPlay...
Option -Verify file content
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Simply rename an mts/m2ts to mkv like in that posting you reference, nofish, is a very very bad idea!!!
Both are two complete different container formats!
Better extract the streams and move the same streams of course without re-encoding in an mkv container.
With the right App, this need only a few seconds.
As i said before the overheat(block size of the mkv container)is much lower.
So on top of that you save additional space- with the same content.
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Old 10-05-2015, 11:34 AM   #6
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Same with *.divx. Rename to *.avi works.
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Old 10-05-2015, 12:23 PM   #7
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...and *.midi -> *.mid. And so on...

+1 for detecting the file type from the actual data instead of simply guessing it from the file name.

http://www.darwinsys.com/file/ (libmagic)
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the reason is that REAPER only identified files by the extension and not by
the raw header.
So if REAPER not intern registered the extension(example AAC) the file dont load and or play.
Although REAPER actually could because
REAPER registered intern mp4 container and your aac and the header for the aac stream of your file appears to be the same as needed to load/play aac streams inside an mp4 container extension.

REAPER really need the capacity to identified files by file header and not only by the file extension.
Which REAPER actual not has.
Header is not necessary. All reaper needs is a way for the user to specify types(expose a user interface for the internal file opening routines).

e.g., all files with extensions a, b, c are opened by program or codec A. extensions r, s, u are opened by program or codec B.

Then it would take a matter of seconds for someone to add a file that reaper hasn't coded for yet can open up because the codec library supports it.

This gets reaper off the tit of hard coding current and future file format extensions.
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hi
under windows , i can rename to mp4 ,but reaper 6 and 5 doesn't let me add them

thanks
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Do you have ffmpeg installed? It's needed for .aac playback afaik.
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