I'm a bit of a newbie at video formats, so please excuse me if my question
appears stupid!
I have been enjoying playing programs captured with get_iplayer on my PC,
but it seems to be necessary to convert them to a different format to play
them on my TV (from USB stick). I found a format that
blah, blah, blah
We inadvertently went off-thread.
The story so far...
It seems that get_iplayer with aactomp3 does a cracking job copying across the
metadata, including cover art.
However, when converting the m4a files to mp3 using WinFF, some
On 20 April 2012 12:56, Steve Champion st...@stevechampion.com wrote:
...is there a format that my TV can play which requires
only a remux (of what get_iplayer downloads) rather than a conversion?
Unfortunately not.
The .mp4 files contain a video stream in avc format (now part of
mpeg4, but
On 20/04/2012 13:03, bat guano wrote:
It seems that get_iplayer with aactomp3 does a cracking job copying across the
metadata, including cover art.
get_iplayer doesn't copy metadata via ffmpeg. AFAICT, ffmpeg doesn't
know how to extract the tags in the FLV file, so no metadata goes across
On 20 April 2012, at 12:56, Steve Champion wrote:
… the conversion … takes a long time... presumably because I am not merely
remuxing, but doing a conversion. I'm struggling a bit to understand the
subtleties of video/audio formats.
Y'know, I think you're doing alright.
You questions seem
BTW: TV is a Technika 23-231-BB-G
...is there a format that my TV can play which requires
only a remux (of what get_iplayer downloads) rather than a conversion?
Unfortunately not.
The .mp4 files contain a video stream in avc format (now part of
mpeg4, but neither simple or advanced simple
On 20/04/2012 14:31, dinkypumpkin wrote:
produces). I tried adding -id3v2_version 3 to the ffmpeg command line,
but even though it wrote id3v2.3 frames into the output file, WMP still
couldn't read them. So, there is some more investigation to
Our emails crossed in the post. ;-)
Yes, perhaps it needs a newer FFmpeg build.
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On 20/04/2012 15:58, bat guano wrote:
Our emails crossed in the post. ;-)
Yes, perhaps it needs a newer FFmpeg build.
One last thing: I just realised that a newer WinFF was available. I was
using WinFF 1.4.0 (and its associated ffmpeg). I installed 1.4.2. and
it worked fine as-is. Its
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