On 20 April 2012 15:35, Steve Champion <[email protected]> wrote: > BTW: TV is a Technika 23-231-BB-G ... >> ... what would be the ffmpeg command line to do the >> required remux? > >>> try this: >>> ffmpeg -i programme.mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec libmp3lame -sameq >>> programme.avi > > Thanks. Well, that did not yield something that my TV could play.
Mmm. ok. Try this then: ffmpeg -i programme.mp4 -vtag xvid -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec libmp3lame -sameq > However, a > bit of poking around (ffmpeg -codecs and a lucky guess) allowed me to find > the following, which does yeld something my TV can play: > > ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec mpeg2video -acodec libmp3lame -sameq output.mpg that would also work, but would produce a much bigger file as you noticed... > Rather a huge file (why?) but conversion said 120fps mpeg2 pre-dates mpeg4 and requires less processing power to compress video - hence it transcodes more quickly - (but doesn't compress video as much as mpeg4). For the same quality files will be bigger, for the same file size quality will be worse. >>> you may also find the the "command" option in get_iplayer useful - it >>> runs a command (or script) at the end of a download, and you can pass >>> "<filename>" as a parameter which is expanded by get_iplayer as the >>> name of the media file it's just downloaded. > > > This I will definitely look into! It would be nice to have anything I > download converted right away. This can work from the web interface, right? erm, er ... "from" I'm really not sure (I'm not a user of the web interface); "with" I don't see why not. Jon _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
