FLAC is for the live stream only, there is no lossless catchup. -- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK
> On 6 Aug 2017, at 10:02, <d.l...@surrey.ac.uk> <d.l...@surrey.ac.uk> wrote: > > " R3 Proms 2017 output is available in lossless format in iPlayer for 30 days" > > I know how to get 320kbit/s using gip, but how do you get the FLAC lossless > stream using gip? > > Thanks > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf > Of Paul Thornett > Sent: 06 August 2017 04:15 > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: Playing BBC R3 FLAC files recorded by nightly VLC > > I don't understand why anyone would choose to use VLC to record the BBC > streams. VLC is clunky, difficult to get working and arcane. Its interface is > really awful. > > Simply download Audacity (which is free), and use its record button when your > stream starts. The only trickiness is at the end when you don't save the > audio output, instead you export it to a file of your choice. Audacity > exports my files as WAV, but you can as easily get it to use FLAC if you > prefer. > > And I assume you know that you don't have to record the concert live, as all > R3 Proms 2017 output is available in lossless format in iPlayer for 30 days. > Regards, > > Paul Thornett > > >> On 6 August 2017 at 02:30, RS <richard...@zoho.com> wrote: >> A few days ago Vangelis kindly told us how to record the BBC R3 FLAC >> streams using a recent nightly build of VLC. Has anyone been able to >> play the recordings other than through a software player such as VLC? >> >> I can play a recording with the nightly build of VLC. The speakers on >> my PC are adequate, but not suitable for listening to music, so it >> defeats the object if I can't play the recordings on anything else. >> >> If I try to play it with VLC v2.2.6 (Umbrella) there is silence. The >> Statistics tab shows the same number of lost buffers as decoded blocks >> and 0 played buffers. The SanDisk Clip Jam claims to be able to play >> FLAC, although there is a warning on the web site that the v1.12 >> firmware is needed. It plays the Hallelujah.flac test file from The >> Sixteen (and it used to play it with the v1.10 firmware) but it will >> not play the BBC FLAC recording. It displays, "Unsupported file format". >> >> It is in an OGG container. I tried using ffmpeg v3.2.4 with >> -acodec=copy to remultiplex it to a FLAC container. I got an error >> message Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec >> parameters ?): >> Invalid data found when processing input >> >> I then tried converting the FLAC in an OGG container to FLAC in a FLAC >> container. I got a huge number of error messages of the form >> [flac@04fdc8a0] Application provided invalid, non monotonically >> increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 122872320 >= 122867712 I thought >> something had gone wrong so I stopped it. I then noticed the output >> file size was not zero, but about 5MByte. I discovered I could play >> it and it was about 42s long. I then let the conversion run to completion. >> I got a final error message >> Error while decoding stream #0:0: Invalid argument followed by the >> usual size, time, bit rate and speed indications. >> >> I found the output file was complete and I could play it in VLC v2.2.6 >> and the SanDisk Clip Jam. >> >> The command I used for the conversion was ffmpeg -i=<infile>.ogg >> -f=flac -sample_fmt=s16 <outfile>.flac >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> get_iplayer mailing list >> get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org >> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
