On 5 July 2012 18:57, Lorenzo Martinelli * <lnzli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 05/07/2012 18:36, Shevek wrote: >> >> On 5 July 2012 17:39, Lorenzo Martinelli * <lnzli...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Using Windows' PVR manager, is there a way to prevent get_iplayer from >>> converting the downloaded stream? >>> >>> I would much prefer download all that I want to download and then use >>> something else to convert it to the format I prefer, without going >>> through >>> the conversion to MP4 stage with (I suppose) ffmpeg. >>> >> >> What is your preferred container? get_iplayer has the option to output MKV > > > I'd be happy if it would stop after downloading the "partial.mp4.flv" file > and move on to download the next file in the list. > > I can convert it to mp4 much more efficiently from another machine. > If get_iplayer does it, it takes up to 45 minutes to convert a 1h program > (there are reasons, including the network connection, the ancientness of the > laptop, etc.) > If I do it from my work computer, the same conversion takes about 10 > minutes. > > Since get_iplayer downloads, converts, moves on to the next download, > converts it, etc. the exercise takes a long time (and the laptop running > get_iplayer is what you get by crossing a coffee grinder with a vacuum > cleaner). > > Instead, if it could download the PVR list, then stop without converting, I > could convert it all manually, quietly and quickly. >
Also, it doesn't actually convert the video - get_iplayer simply calls ffmpeg to re-mux it from an FLV container to an MP4 container. If it was converting, it would take considerably longer! _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
