On 4 January 2011 13:53, David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are plenty of tools out there which will convert files from one > format to another, transcode them to DVD-compatible MPEG format, let you > add your own subtitles, or do whatever else you can think of. > > I believe that get_iplayer should do *one* thing, and do it well. At one point I would have disagreed with you; however since joining my current employer and seeing some of the awful Swiss Army Knife code that my predecessors have created to attempt to do everything (and, like a Swiss Army Knife, every tool is inferior to a proper single-use tool), I'd now agree wholeheartedly. Having been through the code for get_iplayer myself to hack in rtmpdump support back when it wasn't present, I know it's already on the verge of trying to do too much. Given that there's already ffmpeg et al being used, I'd be more in favour of a companion script that works with the files downloaded; maybe scanning the downloads directory when invoked and transcoding the files that match criteria. I should also mention at this point that I have absolutely no spare time to develop this - it's just an idea! Steve -- Irregular Shed - http://www.twindx.co.uk _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
