'AAC/aacPlus' Windows Media Player Plugin

[4Dude]

The Orban/Coding Technologies AAC/aacPlus™ Plugin is a free, full-featured software plug-in for Microsoft Windows Media Player. It is capable of playing AAC/aacPlus™/HE-AAC/eAAC+ audio files and streams in several standards-based, non-proprietary formats using the genuine Coding Technologies decoder. This is the good stuff from the company who invented the SBR technology to make AAC into aacPlus™. High quality, bandwidth-efficient audio is now a reality for Windows Media Player.

http://www.orban.com/plugin

Heres a list of AAC/aac plus streams to test and stuff :)

http://tuner2.com/wmp.html

[zambelli]

Nice. Although... They say it's compatible with WMP 6.4. Hmmm. There was no plugin model for 6.4, so does this mean the "plugin" is really just a DirectShow filter?

[Avish]

When I tried to play first track in the list from here http://www.tuner2.com/wmp.html
WMP gives me this error http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/PLAYER/WEBHELP/DEFAULT.ASPX?ID=C00D10D1&codec=%7bE436EB8B-524F-11CE-9F53-0020AF0BA770%7d

And yes, your plugins is properly installed. It shows info in Now Playing section of WMP. It says "The stream is neither AAC nor aacPlus." about the above mentioned track.

I use WMP10.

[Nic]

@Zambelli: Yes, just a filter. But admit it, the word plugin sounds far more exciting? ;)

[GodofaGap]

It needs an ACM wrapper in the filter graph... why is that???

[Inventive Software]

Cause they can't program right?

This is good news. You can never have too many different filters, except when you install them all!

[gameplaya15143]

It needs an ACM wrapper in the filter graph... why is that???
:confused: really? I thought aac wasn't really ACM compatible (.. but then again, neither is vorbis, yet there is an acm codec for that) ... perhaps we will see an aac ACM codec sometime in the future?

I don't really have any use for this new filter... have had coreaac installed for a long while.. but this is none-the-less interesting that it is using the acm wrapper.

[zambelli]

The ACM implementation does make it compatible with DirectShow, VfW and WMF SDK - so I suppose in that respect it's the most accessible of the 3 technologiesm.