[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: m4a stopped working - was there a problem

[Andy Grundman]

On Sep 2, 2006, at 7:47 PM, cbemoore wrote:

>
> Don't worry - I've got it working now.
>
> Firstly, my M4A file was being decoded by mov123, not alac.
>
> And the reason it wasn't playing is because QuickTime wasn't installed
> on my (recently-reformatted) PC.
>
> It turns out that although MPlayer can play the file by itself, mov123
> relies on QuickTime being installed as well. Is this documented
> anywhere??
>
> Hopefully this will be helpful for anyone else who has the same
> problem...

It's not documented I don't think, but I guess the assumption is that  
if you have AAC files, you most likely have iTunes installed.