RE: Creating divx encoded files

2014-02-20 Thread Andy Wedge
-Original Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of dinkypumpkin Sent: 19 February 2014 14:43 get_iplayer HEAD now sports a --avi option to re-mux video to AVI container. We already did it for MKV, so why not? See Git HEAD section in:

RE: Creating divx encoded files

2014-02-20 Thread batguano999
- Downloaded a short program to test this and ended up with a .avi file All good so far, but when I try to play it, I get the audio but no video. I've tried several media players that I have installed but they are all the same. Hi Even though you have created an avi file, it still

Re: Creating divx encoded files

2014-02-19 Thread Kapitano
On 18/02/2014 22:35, Chris Dunne wrote: I'm interested in this email chain. I have two (budget) TVs that both have USB ports and will play Xvid files (Divx5) when contained in AVI files fine but will not play mp4s directly. Presently the only way I can watch recordings from get_iplayer is to

RE: Creating divx encoded files

2014-02-19 Thread Mark Evans
: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Kapitano Sent: 19 February 2014 08:04 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Creating divx encoded files On 18/02/2014 22:35, Chris Dunne wrote: I'm interested in this email chain. I have two (budget) TVs

Re: Creating divx encoded files

2014-02-19 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 19/02/2014 08:21, Mark Evans wrote: I have found --ffmpeg-tv-opts -c:v mpeg4 will produce MPEG4 encoded files rather than AVC encoded files that seem to work better with my services. I also found you can convert mp4 to avi by using ffmpeg -I test.mp4 test.avi get_iplayer HEAD now sports a

Creating divx encoded files

2014-02-18 Thread Mark Evans
Is it possible to record tv files as div x rather than mp4? ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer

Re: Creating divx encoded files

2014-02-18 Thread Kapitano
On 18/02/2014 18:32, Mark Evans wrote: Is it possible to record tv files as div x rather than mp4? Correct me if I'm wrong, people but...isn't the DivX format a subset of the MPEG4 standard? ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: Creating divx encoded files

2014-02-18 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 06:59:02PM +, Kapitano wrote: On 18/02/2014 18:32, Mark Evans wrote: Is it possible to record tv files as div x rather than mp4? Correct me if I'm wrong, people but...isn't the DivX format a subset of the MPEG4 standard? More or less. Mark, do you perhaps mean the AVI

Re: Creating divx encoded files

2014-02-18 Thread Chris Dunne
I'm interested in this email chain. I have two (budget) TVs that both have USB ports and will play Xvid files (Divx5) when contained in AVI files fine but will not play mp4s directly. Presently the only way I can watch recordings from get_iplayer is to either convert them to Xvid, burn them onto

Re: Creating divx encoded files

2014-02-18 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:35:01PM +, Chris Dunne wrote: I have two (budget) TVs that both have USB ports and will play Xvid files (Divx5) when contained in AVI files fine but will not play mp4s directly. Right, so what you need is to remux and potentially re-encode (if they're in H.264). And

RE: Creating divx encoded files

2014-02-18 Thread Mark Evans
[mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Roger Bell_West Sent: 18 February 2014 23:09 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Creating divx encoded files On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:35:01PM +, Chris Dunne wrote: I have two (budget) TVs that both have USB ports