In article <8DBBF7B33EED43B8811FF58447A3073B@RJCDESK>, RS <[email protected]> wrote: > A few days ago Vangelis kindly told us how to record the BBC R3 FLAC > streams using a recent nightly build of VLC. Has anyone been able to > play the recordings other than through a software player such as VLC?
> I can play a recording with the nightly build of VLC. The speakers on > my PC are adequate, but not suitable for listening to music, so it > defeats the object if I can't play the recordings on anything else. I've had similar behaviour on occasion from using a version of ffmpeg to record the stream into an mkv container. The solution may be to try using ffmpeg -i inputfile -acodec copy outputfile as that tends to 'tidy up' things. Doesn't always work, but worth a try. Had to do this a few days ago when the connection 'got forgotten' by the server leaving ffmpeg hanging. Needed a ctrl-C to stop, and the result wouldn't play until I ran it though the above. Taking this further OT... I'd be interested to know: 1) if others have sometimes had 'gaps' in the recording which are here associated with ffmpeg reporting an HTTPS error. (Essentially a segment goes awol) 2) What delays they get. Here the order of 2 mins behind FM seems typical. I'm hoping all of this will *become* relevant because flac becomes standard and gip can then fetch it. :-) Jim -- Electronics https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
