What is the --mode= command for R3 high quality aac streams please
Simon Nash
get_iplayer at cjnash.com
Sun May 15 16:03:18 EDT 2011
bat guano wrote:
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>> Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 09:42:50 +0100
>> From: get_iplayer at cjnash.com
>> To: batguano999 at hotmail.com
>> CC: roadcone at gmx.com; get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
>> Subject: Re: What is the --mode= command for R3 high quality aac streams please
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>> bat guano wrote:
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>>>> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 22:07:30 +0100
>>>> From: clivebuc at gmail.com
>>>> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
>>>> Subject: Re: What is the --mode= command for R3 high quality aac streams please
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>>>> On 13/05/2011 21:44, bat guano wrote:
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>>>>>> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 20:25:56 +0100
>>>>>> From: clivebuc at gmail.com
>>>>>> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
>>>>>> Subject: What is the --mode= command for R3 high quality aac streams please
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>>>>>> Hello,
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>>>>>> It seems that R3 is broadcasting 320K aac streams for their evening live
>>>>>> concerts. Can anyone guide me as to the correct --mode=?? switch to
>>>>>> secure those streams please?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you.
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>>>>>> Clive
>>>>> Hi
>>>>> It was mentioned in an email some months ago.
>>>>> I can't find the email now, but this is the command to download the 320Kbps aac stream in an flv container:-
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>>>>> get_iplayer --get --type=liveradio "http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/gtis/?server=cp60703.live.edgefcs.net&identifier=Special_Event1_UK@s6485&kind=akamai&application=live"
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>>>> Thanks for the replay batguano - I can see this is to access the live
>>>> stream (which I have never tried but now I know how). What I was after
>>>> is the mode to d/l the file later. My default mode is --mode=flashaac
>>>> for R4 and R4Ex but that gets me 128K - is there a 320K equivalent please?
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>>>> Thanks.
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>>>> Clive
>>> Hi
>>> I don't think that the Radio 3 'listen again' shows are available in 320Kbps format... but maybe I'm wrong.
>>> See if someone else corrects me.
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>>> By the way, when using my previous command to download the live 320Kbps stream, it gives me better results if I include:-
>>> --rtmp-liveradio-opts --live
>>> in the command.
>>> Like this:-
>>> get_iplayer --get --type=liveradio --rtmp-liveradio-opts --live "http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/gtis/?server=cp60703.live.edgefcs.net&identifier=Special_Event1_UK@s6485&kind=akamai&application=live"
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>> Can you say a little more about what kind of better results you get when
>> you use this option?
>>
>> Simon
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> Can you say a little more about what kind of better results you get when
> you use this option?
> Simon
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> Hi Simon
> If I don't use '--rtmp-liveradio-opts --live', when I come to unpack the flv with FFmpeg it "sometimes" gives errors.
> Like this:-
> ffmpeg -i foo.flv -acodec copy foo.aac
> [adts @ 0x9f432e0] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 4973220 >= 4971150
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> When this happens, I've tried using absf but it doesn't seem to cure it.
> Like this:-
> ffmpeg -i foo.flv -acodec copy -absf aac_adtstoasc foo.aac
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> Using '--rtmp-liveradio-opts --live' adds '--live' to the command for RTMPDump.
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> I've come across this before when downloading other (non BBC) streams with RTMPDump.
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> For live streams (and sometimes even for non-live streams) RTMPDump tries to download too fast.
> Then it trips up, then it tries to resume.
> So it produces weird timestamps.
> Using '--live' option with RTMPDump will prevent this.
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Thanks for this information. I've seen this problem with FLV timestamps
and I didn't realise that I could fix it by adding the "--live" option
to rtmpdump.
Simon
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