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

BBC live streaming stopped working

2014-02-18 Thread JCA
I am using the following incantation to stream BBC News to my Linux system: get_iplayer --stream --modes=flashvhigh2,flashhigh2,flashstd2 --nopurge --type=livetv BBC News --player=mplayer -vo xv -cache 128 -fs -stop-xscreensaver -zoom - This used to work until recently (a few weeks ago) but it

RE: Creating divx encoded files

2014-02-18 Thread Mark Evans
Hi Yes that has given me some ideas, although I was wondering how I would use the --ffmpeg-tv-opts options to achieve this in one pass rather than having to run a second pass. I can't seem to find any examples of the use of that parameter :( Mark -Original Message- From: get_iplayer