I have a Sony Blu-Ray player & found the files from get_iplayer work just fine, if you change the file extension from "mp4" to "avi". With my xbox360 I had to change the file extension to "mov".
As you say DLNA is whatever the manufacturer decides to implement... I just do this manually, though it would be nice to work out a way to automate it.. Rich J. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Bircumshaw [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 23 May 2011 16:41 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ffmpeg output formats. On 23/5/2011, at 2:30pm, Paul Verrall wrote: > ... > I need ffmpeg to output iplayer videos in something other than the default mp4. > Basically my Sony blu-ray (DLNA compliant) device will only play > certain types of video over the network. DNLA is a very dubious "standard", and can mean practically whatever the manufacturer wants it to mean. There is no assurance that one DNLA-compliant device will work with any other specific DNLA-compliant device. > Not sure of the exact > encoding needed, but some hints of command syntax would go a long way > to getting me started. Well, knowing the exact encoding needed would be a *very* good start. get_iplayer's .mp4 videos are h264 video & ACC audio. Your blu-ray player should be able to cope with that, because blu-rays also carry video with these encodings. The PS3 is made by the same manufacturer as your player, was released 5 years ago, and has no problem playing get_iplayer .mp4 videos. You can stream to the PS3 using DNLA and the MediaTomb server, but I do now recall mention that Sony's implementation of DNLA there is horrendous. I have streamed get_iplayer's MP4 videos to the PS3 this way. If you can put a video on a memory stick or SDcard, or burn it to a CD / DVD and play it on your player, then the exact same video should work fine over DNLA. TL;DR: I'd make sure first that this isn't a problem with DNLA, rather than the video format. If you do indeed need to mess with the video encoding, then use `get_iplayer --raw` and the ffmpeg documentation [1] [2] [3]. Ask any questions on the ffmpeg mailing list or elsewhere until you've got a file format you can play / stream to your Sony. Further questions are probably not relevant to this mailing list, or to get_iplayer, until you have converted the BBC's .flv file (that you get using "--raw") into a format you can play - only then we can tell you about get_iplayer integration. aB. [1] http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html [2] http://ffmpeg.org/faq.html [3] http://www.google.com/search?q=ffmpeg+manual _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
