On 9 September 2015 at 11:05, RS <[email protected]> wrote: > If I try to play the BBC Radio 4 .m4a files in the Longevity player the > player freezes for about 4min.
I recall hearing about similar behaviour with someone's mp3 player - it appeared that the player was reading through the entire file to read some metadata at the end before actually playing the audio stream. I don't beleive that the m4a files that come out of iplayer are optimised for streaming, and I believe that some of the metadata is at the end of the file. So it's possible that your player is having a similar problem. On ubunutu I use "mp4file --optimize" to optimize each m4a file that pops out of get_iplayer, there are other programs that do similar things. You could try this and see if it solves your problem, and if it does it's possible to write a script that get_iplayer runs after each download to do this every time. Jon _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
