I've been discussing the 'loss' of the 1280x720 25fps version with someone at the BBC.
IIUC this stemmed from 'Red Bee' days of yore, and until recently people at the BBC had thought they had stopped it long ago. Someone apparently noticed recently that it was still available. And then actually disabled it. Hence the mysterious recent ending of its availablity. I have made the point that the 1280x720 25fps version is useful for people with a content 'cap' problem, etc, so will be missed because the 50fps version means somewhat bigger files and/or stream rates. But I doubt this will cause a rethink. That leaves me currently in a dither between fetching the 1280x720 50fps and running it though a frame rare conversion or giving up and making do with the 960x540 version(s). It has also set me wondering about arranging for gip to fetch to ram storage and then convert that into a file on my main disc. (The machine I use does have 8GB of ram, mostly free when I am fetching things in the morning.) Anyone have experience of doing this, file by file? What I have in mind is a process of 1) Use gip to get a 50fps file saved to ram. 2) Get ffmpeg to convert that into a 25fps version on main disc. 3) Delete the file in ram 4) Loop back to (1) for the next file on the list. I can avoid a 'cap' as I do all the fetching before the 9am start of our 'metered' period. The above should reduce wear and tear on my main disc (an SSD). But I don't know how feasible it might be. Comments?... 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 biog http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/ups_and_downs.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
