FLV to MP4

[J K.Eason]

> *From:* "chris chery" <chrischery at free.fr>
> *To:* <get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org>
> *Date:* Tue, 2 Jul 2013 10:31:08 +0200
> 
> the conversion process from FLV to  MP4 takes ages . I think it 
> used to be much faster? any reasons why?
> thanks 

Assuming you've recently updated from 2.82 to 2.83, the default download
mode for video is now HD not SD, so you'll probably find that the .mp4
files are much larger than they used to be as well as taking longer to
transcode.
 
See the Recording Mode Changes section on this page:
https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/release283 

Regards
       John