The mp3 radio downloads that use MPlayer.

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Wed Jul 17 19:39:04 BST 2013, bat guano wrote:

>Is it necessary for get_iplayer to use MPlayer instead of FFmpeg for muxing 
>the mp3 downloads?
>Will FFmpeg not demux them properly, or will the demuxed files not play on 
>some players?
>Or is there some other reason?

Hello bat!

I have recently referred to this in my post here:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2013-July/004448.html

Quote:

>Then MPlayer is used to demux the raw MP3
>stream from the FLV file...
>(FFmpeg is also capable of demuxing this, but as I recall from
>posts many months ago, some "issues" arise in some Open Source OSes during
>this process...
>With the abolition of the RealAudio streams - it is very hard to find one, 
>even in
>Radio Archive Pages - and the impracticallity of dumping WMA streams in
>real-time, Mplayer is now almost exclusively used for demuxing those MP3
>streams from the "flashaudio" radiomode; perhaps it is now time to review
>those "issues", that is if they persist even with the latest FFmpeg 
>packages,
>so as to do away completely with MPlayer in the next GiP update...)

A very quick search of the archive produced this result:

http://www.mail-archive.com/get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org/msg00439.html

and I do recollect dinkypumpkin mentioning some reasons back then why
MPlayer is still being used, but it was long ago and the "issue" (if indeed 
it is one)
hasn't resurfaced - until now, that is...

Cheers
Vangelis.