Choice of file format

Peter Jones peter.llewelyn.jones at gmail.com
Wed Sep 15 11:38:41 EDT 2010


Upgrading to flvstreamer 2.1 has made a difference. By default aac files are
downloaded correctly

Just to finish. Who decides which formats are available for a given program
?

Thanks for your help

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Stuart Henderson <stu at spacehopper.org>wrote:

> On 2010/09/15 14:43, Peter Jones 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.
>
> not all content is available in each format; if you must have mp3,
> you would have to transcode afterwards (and accept some drop in
> quality; lossy compression produces cleaner results on source
> material that hasn't already been compressed using another type
> of lossy compression).
>
> > I also see a message
> > WARNING: Your version of flvstreamer/rtmpdump does not support SWF
> > verification (FLVstreamer v1.9).
>
> flvstreamer doesn't support swfverification, which is usually
> needed to download longer programmes. you could switch to rtmpdump.
>
>
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