On 19 February 2013 10:37, John G. Dargie <[email protected]> wrote: > Would it be straightforward to allow for a temporary directory to be > specified. > > Why? > I am using get_iplayer with --file-prefix to specify a networked drive as my > destination. > This means the files are first downloaded as FLV containers to that location, > and then transcoded from and to that networked location. Whilst the > end-result is good, it is much slower than it needs to be because of the > overhead of writing to and from the networked drive. This is most noticeable > when the transcoding is happening which means writing FROM and TO the network > drive at the same time. > > So > I'd like to be able to specify a temporary location (--temp-dir?) so that the > following happens: > a) Download FLV file to my temporary location on my local drive (--temp-dir?) > b) Transcode FROM the temporary location, outputting TO final destination > (--file-prefix). > > I would expect the existing behaviour to happen if no temporary directory was > specified. > > Does that sound reasonable and feasible?
An interim solution would be to use a local download location and then specify a post process script to move the files to your network share --comand _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
