Hi all, This is a semi-useless response, apart from to give some confidence to you Arthur about whether this works.
I only use get_iplayer to download comedy of of R4 and R4 Extra. Part of that process is running ffmpeg to get it to a point where it works in iTunes/on my iPhone, although I do have to manually change the MP3 tags. This is, however, on Windows. So - persevere - it does work! :-) Matt On 24 Jul 2011, at 19:31, dinkypumpkin wrote: > On 24/07/2011 18:04, Arthur Dent wrote: >> I saw a posting from Jon Davies with a script "fixupm4a.sh" which seemed >> to be just what I am looking for. Unfortunately it seems to rely on >> mp4tags (which I have found comes with libmp4v2 on Fedora) and >> mp4creator which is just not available (that I can find) on Fedora. > > That script doesn't do the actual conversion of AAC files. It was written to > deal with hardware that couldn't play the M4A files written by ffmpeg > available at the time. The script works around the problem by forcing a > re-optimisation of the file. See Jon's explanation in the message to which > the script is attached. I think the problem may have been corrected in ffmpeg > shortly after. > > The basic ffmpeg command to convert a file is: > > ffmpeg -i x.aac -vn -acodec copy -absf aac_adtstoasc -y x.m4a > > I believe we established that ffmpeg from the 0.6 branch produces files that > don't work with iTunes. If that's what you have, you'll probably need to > find a more recent version. The latest release version (0.8) works OK. > > BTW, if it should prove necessary, the mp4file utility that is part of the > mp4v2 distribution can replace mp4creator, at least for optimisation > purposes. I'm not a Fedoran, so I'm not sure which RPM you would find it > lurking in. > > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer -------------------------------------------- Matthew Baxter-Reynolds Director, AMX Software Ltd Author of Cracking Native Cross-platform Mobile Apps Without the Kludge (http://www.multimobiledevelopment.com/) ...Follow me on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/mbrit) ......Join me on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/mbrit) .........Subscribe to my blog (http://www.mbr247.com/) 07799 138885 [email protected] _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
