> On 2 Jul 2016, at 10:43, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Since the youtube-dl can only download the audio stream as suggested above, > you don't need to transcode with ffmpeg - although it is not difficult to do > so > for streams you have already downloaded: > > ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -q:a 0 -map a output.mp3
Yeah, but I'd obviously prefer not to transcode, because that's lossy. > or output.m4a if you prefer. Well, I tried that. youtube-dl -x --audio-format best http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07fl5bh This gives an .m4a file which also does not play on the device. The question may boil down to the Google Drive audio / video player, and its (in)ability to play AAC audio. But that would be surprising, don't you think? > As an alternative for BBC you could also use get_iplayer: > > get_iplayer --get XXXX --radiomode=flashaachigh -- > flvstreamer="/usr/bin/flvstreamer" I'm reluctant to do that at present, because I have a "perfectly good" audio stream already. The .mp4 or .m4a files I have play just fine in VLC or Quicktime Player. I assumed that it should only be necessary to repack the audio into a different container to get it to play. In my experience most players conform to Postel's Principle, being liberal in the input they'll accept. When I've had media playback problems before, I think it's usually been a container issue. Stroller.
