On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:03 PM, dinkypumpkin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18/05/2014 10:53, scrofula 101 wrote: > >> Thanks for the above. I installed the ffpmpeg from the ppa and did the >> ffmpeg-radio-opts="-movflags rtphint" to the command line. I am using >> a 6th gen ipod nano. The file I tested now stops at about 7 mins. > > > I guess I was wrong about that version of ffmpeg being sufficiently recent. > The PPA presumably provides only old versions for compatibility reasons. If > you have access to a modern version of ffmpeg (e.g., from Fedora), it's > worth doing another test. > > >> I tried using Banshee in Linux Mint to transfer files and it went >> through the motions but the files didn't transfer. I have the same >> timestamp flitting around issue mentioned above by Jon. I don't use >> any tagging tools for itunes. > > > You also may want to try downloading with --no-tag to take AtomicParsley out > of the equation as well. > > Another thing to try is re-muxing your .m4a file into another .m4a file > using MP4Box (apt-get install gpac), which will insert the audio into a > fresh MP4 container not constructed by ffmpeg. You will lose any metadata > tags, though MP4Box supports adding a subset of the fields supported by > AtomicParsley. > > If all else fails, you can use --aactomp3 to generate MP3 files and > (hopefully) avoid any MP4 headaches, though it takes extra time in > transcoding. For Radio 3 programmes, add --mp3vbr=0 for better quality. > You may want to transcode Radio 3 programmes in iTunes or another tool > instead in order to get higher quality than get_iplayer delivers. As to the > resulting audio, you'd have to decide for yourself if it's good enough. > Caveat listener. >
Thanks No luck with using --no-tag or MP4Box. Using --aactomp3 did the trick so it does look like an mp4 problem. The file quality is a little worse but acceptable. I'll have a go a compiling my own ffmpeg to see if that works. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
