Audio Movie CHOP not working

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Hi guys,

i am having trouble getting audio from a video link in a Movie File In top. I tried it with an Audio Movie Chop but I can’t get any data from it. I also tried I directly from an Audio File In but it couldn’t read the link.
When I paste the link in the Web I do get an audio.

This is the link to the video: Video. Its just a randomly scraped TikTok video

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Hi @Kirouma

thanks for reporting this, we are having a look.

cheers
Markus

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Hey,

The AAC codec in this movie is not one we support. We only support the AAC Low (AAC LC) codec. This one is AAC LC SBR PS.

You’ll have to reencode the audio track using AAC LC or another codec.

Malcolm

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is it possible to change the codec into a playable one inside TouchDesigner ?

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Not with native nodes. Because TD does not support the audio protocol used in that movie, so it can’t read the audio track.

But there’s a python package: python-ffmpeg

So then you can start a ffmpeg reencoding of your moviefile with python commands, which you cán do from TD. If you use async python the re-encoding will not freeze the TD timeline. Search the forum for an async tox which helps you set that up.

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Thank you, I will give it a try!