Choice of file format

[Dan Ashby]

It should be:

--modes= not --mode=

Sorry.

What program are you trying to grab?

Dan

--On 15 September 2010 14:43 +0200 Peter Jones 
<peter.llewelyn.jones at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dan
>
> Thanks fro the input.
>
> The mode=flashaudio,iphone returns an error 'No specidied modes
> available' and Im asked to try flashaaclow,rtspaaclow,wma .
> So I try again and the INFO tells me that  flashaaclo1w,wma1 will be
> tried for the version default. Soit does seem not possible to force MP3
> mode.
>
> I also see a message
> WARNING: Your version of flvstreamer/rtmpdump does not support SWF
> verification (FLVstreamer v1.9).
>
> a file with type default.partial.aac.flv is then downloaded and FFmpeg
> tries and fails to convert this (file has Unknown format). The flv file
> is retained.
>
> All this on Ubuntu 10.04.
>
> Any ideas?
>  
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Dan Ashby <dan at slickpepper.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I use
>
> mode=flashaudio,iphone
>
> Not everything comes out in iphone format, hence the use of flashaudio.
>
> I stopped using flvstreamer and went over the rtmpdump and this helped
> with some download problems I was having. See some earlier posts on this
> problem:
>
> <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2010-August/000111.html>
> <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2010-August/000116.html>
>
> .partial.flv is the default file extension before the file is finished
> downloading. flv is a flash container that ffmpeg typically dumps the
> audio / video stream from when the download is finished.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>
> --On 04 September 2010 09:32 +0200 Peter Jones
> <peter.llewelyn.jones at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I would like to have MP3 format for all files that I download from BBC
> radio
> With the option --modes one can select the type of file for the download
> of a radio program. 
> I have version 2.78 and I am limited to files in aac or wma using the
> --modes option. However today I tried to download a Steve Wright BBC2
> program
> and by mistake I downloaded another BBC program and this arrived as MP3.
> What decides the type of output for the file, is it the host or can I
> force something on my side?
>
> Also when trying to download a program of more than 1 hour get_iplayer
> stops and this is a regular occurrence. The downloaded program file is
> then something like
> ...default.partial.aac.flv .
>
> Can someone explain what is happening and what I can do to force MP3
> download and ensure that whole programs are downloaded.
>  
> Many thanks for your help
>
>
>
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