(not) converting to mp3

[Derek Moss]

Thanks for the info. I'll have to check with my brother exactly what
he needs to do with the files. He can certainly play them as flv on
his PC but it may be that his portable MP3 player can't handle them or
he wants to burn them to disc and his authoring software doesn't
accept flvs.

On 9 July 2013 16:26, Kapitano <kapitano72 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/10/2013 16:41 PM, Derek Moss wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, I'll take a look at those, although it might be easiest to let
>> get_iplayer handle the audio/radio programme conversion/extraction and
>> manually specify --raw for TV programmes.
>>
>> Don't the flvs made from radio programmes just contain mp3, aac or wma
>> audio anyway? I did try renaming one from flv to aac and that played
>> fine in VLC. So is there any need to extract the audio, rather than
>> just rename them?
>
>
> The FLV of radio shows is a very small wrapper for .AAC - or sometimes,
> especially for local radio, .MP3. AFAIK, the wrapper contains the header for
> an empty video stream, plus assosciated empty timecode list, plus JPG
> artwork (if you don't set GiP to strip it out).
>
> So no, it makes almost no difference. Unless you have an MP3/AAC player that
> can't handle FLVs - and even then, some of them are smart enough to figure
> out that it's 'really' just MP3 of AAC.
>
>
>
>
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