Flac to AAC transcoding

[Balnes]

Hi,

I'm wondering if it's possible to transcode my Flac files to aac for streaming.
Today I'm transcoding my flac files to mp3 and this works flawlessly.

I tried to download faac and used the parameters faac -q 100 -b 256 - -.

But neither the web-player or external (Media Player) seems to be able to play the files.

Is this even possible or are only MP3 possible for streaming.
I can't stream "pure" flac either without transcoding to MP3.

All suggestions would be great.

[3R3]

I always stuck with mp3 for streaming/transcoding to, because it always worked, but i would be interested in streaming to aac/m4a too. Better quality with low bandwidths would be just what i need. I will see if it works with ffmpeg.

edit: i tried to feed m4a into the jwplayer, but it didnt work. does anyone know what formats are supported or how you can switch them?

according to jwplayer website, theres a switch, where type=sound plays mp3 and type=video plays flv, h264 and m4a. but i didnt get it to work.

i tried to alter the playlist.jsp in subsonic/jetty/1335/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp/ where it says

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list[0] = {
            duration:song.duration,
            file:song.streamUrl,
            title:song.title,
            type:"sound"

changed type:"sound" to "video"
but unfortunately it wasnt enough, jwplayer wouldnt work anymore after this. (clear cache before testing)

i'll go looking through the "make subsonic play video"-threads to find a solution.

edit:
tried various things, but no succes, even the video mod from mohican cant do this (play streamed m4a files)
at least for me it didnt work, videos did though.