On 28/12/2010, at 11:17am, Don Rossie wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for your reply Andy and the attached information. > > Am I right in saying that after I run get_iplayer and it has downloaded the > video file from iplayer, it then has a second stage of where it converts it > to a mp4 file from a flv file by using ffmpeg ?
Yes. This is shown in this part of get_iplayer's output: ... 318090.957 kB / 1734.20 sec (99.9%) 318218.957 kB / 1734.56 sec (99.9%) 318282.957 kB / 1734.92 sec (99.9%) 318304.984 kB / 1 735.08 sec (99.9%) Download complete FFmpeg version SVN-r25767, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers built on Dec 14 2010 00:29:20 with gcc 4.4.4 configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --shlibdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-static --enable-shared --cc=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --disable-stripping --disable-debug --disable-network --disable-vaapi --disable-ffplay --disable-static --disable-vdpau --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --disable-indev=v4l --disable-indev=v4l2 --disable-indev=alsa --disable-indev=oss --disable-indev=jack --disable-outdev=alsa --disable-outdev=oss --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libschroedinger --disable-altivec --cpu=host --enable-hardcoded-tables libavutil 50.33. 0 / 50.33. 0 libavcore 0.13. 0 / 0.13. 0 libavcodec 52.96. 0 / 52.96. 0 libavformat 52.84. 0 / 52.84. 0 libavdevice 52. 2. 2 / 52. 2. 2 libavfilter 1.62. 0 / 1.62. 0 libswscale 0.12. 0 / 0.12. 0 libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0 [flv @ 0x8b724c0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate Input #0, flv, from '/mnt/space/Media/BBC/Climbing_Great_Buildings_-_7._St_Pauls_Cathedral_b00tv973_default.partial.mp4.flv': Metadata: duration : 1735 moovPosition : 32 width : 832 height : 468 videocodecid : avc1 audiocodecid : mp4a avcprofile : 77 avclevel : 30 aacaot : 2 videoframerate : 25 audiosamplerate : 24000 audiochannels : 2 Duration: 00:28:55.12, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 832x468 [PAR 117:117 DAR 16:9], 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 50 tbc Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16 Output #0, mp4, to '/mnt/space/Media/BBC/Climbing_Great_Buildings_-_7._St_Pauls_Cathedral_b00tv973_default.partial.mp4': Metadata: encoder : Lavf52.84.0 Stream #0.0: Video: libx264, yuv420p, 832x468 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 25 tbn, 25 tbc Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 Stream #0.1 -> #0.1 Press [q] to stop encoding frame= 2531 fps= 0 q=-1.0 size= 18458kB time=101.21 bitrate=1494.0kbits/s frame= 5026 fps=5025 q=-1.0 size= 36745kB time=201.00 bitrate=1497.6kbits/s frame= 7228 fps=4818 q=-1.0 size= 52937kB time=289.11 bitrate=1500.0kbits/s frame= 9757 fps=4878 q=-1.0 size= 71423kB time=390.28 bitrate=1499.2kbits/s ... If you add "--debug" to your get_iplayer arguments you'll see at least a little bit more - it should tell you, I think, exactly how get_iplayer is calling ffmpeg. The purpose of ffmpeg (to get_iplayer) is explained in the last paragraph: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00158.html > This is my command line and I don't refer to ffmpeg anywhere so I assuming > that it is built into get_iplayer: > > get_iplayer --type=tv --get 130 --modes=iphone,flashstd,flashnormal > > When the file had downloaded, it still won't work on itunes !!! I think you need to use "--tvmode" here, not "--modes". I.E. "--tvmode=iphone,flashstd,flashnormal". Using "--modes=iphone,flashstd,flashnormal" is shown here to be ignored. You can see what modes get_iplayer is trying from this early part of get_iplayer's output: INFO: Checking existence of default version INFO: flashvhigh1,flashvhigh2,flashhigh1,flashhigh2,flashstd1,flashstd2 modes will be tried for version default INFO: Trying flashvhigh1 mode to record tv: Climbing Great Buildings - 7. St Paul's Cathedral INFO: File name prefix = Climbing_Great_Buildings_-_7._St_Pauls_Cathedral_b00tv973_default RTMPDump v2.3 See the second line? In my case (above) this is being taken from my preferences: $ get_iplayer --prefs-show | grep tvmode tvmode = flashhd,flashvhigh,flashhigh,flashstd,flashnormal $ As others have observed the iphone mode is no longer working. According to [1] flashstd & flashnormal both appear to be higher resolution than iphone mode, but lower bitrate. It's quite possible your iPod won't play them. What mode have you actually downloaded that it's not playing? You need to look at the whole of get_iplayer's output in order to determine this. On a Linux system: get_iplayer --get 130 --tvmode=iphone,flashstd,flashnormal > output.txt Then you can `tail -f output.txt` in another terminal window, and examine it long after the download has completed. If there are no modes available for download that will play on your iPod then you'll need to transcode the video, as per your attempt to use ffmpeg documented in your post of 24 December 2010 10:43:53 am GMT. If you're on a Windows PC then you may find it easiest to use a GUI program for transcoding; I'm surprised VLC doesn't offer this option, but you'll probably find Handbrake worth a look, too. I'm sure there are a bunch of different Windows transcoders that offer iPod output presets. aB. [1] http://beebhack.wikia.com/wiki/IPlayer_TV _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
