On 07/01/2016 03:10 PM, Stroller wrote: > I've only recently started using my Android device for playing audio. > > About once a week I listen to a podcast, which is usually an MP3 I've > downloaded from NPR.org. > > On my laptop I copy these to Google Drive (big shout to net-misc/drive) and > then I can access then via Drive on my Android phone. > > Google Drive on Android seems to play these audio files on a built-in player; > its only controls are to skip forwards or backwards 30 seconds, but this is > adequate for podcasts. > > I have here a BBC radio show that I downloaded a couple of weeks ago with > net-misc/youtube-dl. > > When downloaded it saves as an .mp4 file. I have also tried renaming it to > .m4a but, either way, Google Drive complains "unable to process this video". > > How do I need to process this audio to get it to play, please? > > I'd obviously prefer to keep the same audio stream, rather than transcoding > it. I assume that the player can handle AAC (??), it just needs to be in > another container. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions, > > Stroller. > > > > Details: > > > $ youtube-dl http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07fl5bh > [bbc.co.uk] b07fl5bh: Downloading video page > [bbc.co.uk] b07fl2qw: Downloading media selection XML > [bbc.co.uk] b07fl2qw: Downloading m3u8 information > [bbc.co.uk] b07fl2qw: Downloading m3u8 information > [bbc.co.uk] b07fl2qw: Downloading m3u8 information > [hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest > [hlsnative] Total fragments: 390 > [download] Destination: The Bronze Age Collapse, In Our Time - BBC Radio > 4-b07fl2qw.mp4 > [download] 100% of 40.56MiB in 01:42 > [ffmpeg] Fixing malformated aac bitstream in "The Bronze Age Collapse, In Our > Time - BBC Radio 4-b07fl2qw.mp4" > $ file The\ Bronze\ Age\ Collapse\,\ In\ Our\ Time\ -\ BBC\ Radio\ > 4-b07fl2qw.mp4 > The Bronze Age Collapse, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4-b07fl2qw.mp4: ISO Media, > MP4 Base Media v1 [IS0 14496-12:2003] > $ midentify The\ Bronze\ Age\ Collapse\,\ In\ Our\ Time\ -\ BBC\ Radio\ > 4-b07fl2qw.mp4 > ID_AUDIO_ID=0 > ID_AID_0_LANG=eng > ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=major_brand > ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0=isom > ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME1=minor_version > ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE1=512 > ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME2=compatible_brands > ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE2=isomiso2mp41 > ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME3=encoder > ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE3=Lavf56.25.101 > ID_CLIP_INFO_N=4 > ID_FILENAME=The\ Bronze\ Age\ Collapse,\ In\ Our\ Time\ -\ BBC\ Radio\ > 4-b07fl2qw.mp4 > ID_DEMUXER=lavfpref > ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=MP4A > ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=128000 > ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000 > ID_AUDIO_NCH=2 > ID_START_TIME=0.00 > ID_LENGTH=2495.91 > ID_SEEKABLE=1 > ID_CHAPTERS=0 > ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=128000 > ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000 > ID_AUDIO_NCH=2 > ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffaac > ID_EXIT=EOF > $ > >
You can just have youtube-dl download just the audio of the youtube video. youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07fl5bh You can also set other formats for the audio "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", "opus", or "wav" -- Willie Matthews matthews.willi...@gmail.com
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