converting m4a (aac) to wav

[jacobacci]

I am trying to convert local m4a (aac) files to wav. Minimstreamer is installed, as is ffmpeg.
The files were created using qaac, so they should be genuine apple aac files (with extension m4a). I put aac:wav into the stream.properties field.
When I stream these (local) files to the dlna renderer, no conversion happens. The renderer reports aac.
Putting m4a:wav into stream.properties results in illegal media type.
Do I have to rename all files from m4a to aac?

[stefano_mbp]

(30-07-2020 07:50)jacobacci Wrote:  I am trying to convert local m4a (aac) files to wav. Minimstreamer is installed, as is ffmpeg.
The files were created using qaac, so they should be genuine apple aac files (with extension m4a). I put aac:wav into the stream.properties field.
When I stream these (local) files to the dlna renderer, no conversion happens. The renderer reports aac.
Putting m4a:wav into stream.properties results in illegal media type.
Do I have to rename all files from m4a to aac?

I think you should use mp4:wav as you can read here
“ mp4 MPEG-formatted files containing AAC audio data. Valid for local files served by MinimServer (.mp4, .m4a and .m4b) only. The output type must be L16, L24, wav, wav24 or wav16. A stream converter program is required.”
https://minimstreamer.com/userguide.html#Transcoding

[jacobacci]

(30-07-2020 08:00)stefano_mbp Wrote:  I think you should use mp4:wav

Thanks a million Stefano, mp4 did the trick indeed.