Cannot play

[Ranec]

On 2 March 2011 18:35, Ranec <get_iplayer at cemery.org.uk> wrote:
> On 2 March 2011 17:33, Jon Davies <jon at hedgerows.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 2 March 2011 16:39, Ranec <get_iplayer at cemery.org.uk> wrote:
>>> On 2 March 2011 16:27, Jon Davies <jon at hedgerows.org.uk> wrote:
>>> > On 2 March 2011 16:04, Ranec <get_iplayer at cemery.org.uk> wrote:
>>> >> I get this when I try and play using the web UI.
>>> >> The .m3u file comes down, VLC opens it and:
>>> > [...]
>>> >> Unknown encoder 'libfaac'
>>> >
>>> > your version of ffmpeg was compiled without the faac library.
>>> >
>>> Sorry about that, yes, Windows 7, I used the all-in-one installer.
>>
>> Ah.  I don't run get_iplayer on windows and can't really help you any
>> more, sorry. Over to the windows experts...
>>
>> Jon
>
> OK, some progress.
>
> I got a new build of ffmpeg (source from git) here:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayer-win32/files/FFmpeg/
> and then got the (built separately) libfaac here:
> http://www.paehl.com/open_source/?Convert_Tools:FFMPEG
> I had to rename the downloaded libfaac-0.dll to libfaac.dll
> then the playing worked.
> No idea what else has broken and all the first download had was
> ffmpeg.exe (no ffplay.exe for instance).
>
> -R

I just downloaded the first thing on the list in the web UI & I got a nice .mp4.
The output in the record tab had mention of ffmpeg being the version
from git, so that's promising. Plus it was clearly a static build,
lots of libav blah blah in the blurb too.
-R