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On 07/02/2016 05:30 AM, Stroller wrote: |
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>> On 2 Jul 2016, at 10:43, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Since the youtube-dl can only download the audio stream as suggested above, |
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>> you don't need to transcode with ffmpeg - although it is not difficult to do so |
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>> for streams you have already downloaded: |
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>> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -q:a 0 -map a output.mp3 |
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> Yeah, but I'd obviously prefer not to transcode, because that's lossy. |
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>> or output.m4a if you prefer. |
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> Well, I tried that. |
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> youtube-dl -x --audio-format best http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07fl5bh |
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> This gives an .m4a file which also does not play on the device. |
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> The question may boil down to the Google Drive audio / video player, and its (in)ability to play AAC audio. But that would be surprising, don't you think? |
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>> As an alternative for BBC you could also use get_iplayer: |
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>> get_iplayer --get XXXX --radiomode=flashaachigh -- |
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>> flvstreamer="/usr/bin/flvstreamer" |
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> I'm reluctant to do that at present, because I have a "perfectly good" audio stream already. |
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> The .mp4 or .m4a files I have play just fine in VLC or Quicktime Player. |
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> I assumed that it should only be necessary to repack the audio into a different container to get it to play. |
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> In my experience most players conform to Postel's Principle, being liberal in the input they'll accept. When I've had media playback problems before, I think it's usually been a container issue. |
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> Stroller. |
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I also tried to download it and play it using best but it would not |
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play. You best bet is to just extract the audio as mp3 using the command |
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I showed you. |
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youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07fl5bh |
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I had no problem at all playing it. |
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Willie Matthews |
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matthews.willie80@×××××.com |