On 22 Nov 2015 at 22:42, Nick Payne Nick Payne <[email protected]> wrote:
> I recently purchased a Panasonic DMR-HWT250 PVR, which can also function > as a DLNA client - I run Serviio on my PC as the server. I can use the > DLNA client on the PVR to play MP4s I create myself, but if I try to > play any of the MP4s downloaded by GiP, I just get a "Please wait" > message on the TV screen and the file never starts playing. > > I re-encoded a couple of the GiP MP4s using VidCoder (which uses > HandBrake as its encoding engine), and then copied the re-encoded MP4s > over the ones downloaded by GiP, and those re-encoded MP4s play through > the DLNA client without any problem... > > I'm running GiP 2.94 on Windows, and the command I use is just > > get_iplayer --pid=nnnnnnnn --modes=hlsbest > > Any suggestions on any command line options I can try to get around this > problem? > > Nick Try running the mp4 through mkvtoolnix, the conversion to mkv seems to strip out a lot of the container info that iPlayer and GiP add. Cheers _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
