Remuxing m4a radio files for digital audio player

dinkypumpkin dinkypumpkin at gmail.com
Wed Feb 19 11:22:58 EST 2014


On 19/02/2014 14:13, Ben Shepherd wrote:
> I recently bought a new Sandisk Sansa Clip+ portable audio player, and
> I've updated the firmware to Rockbox to allow it to play a greater
> range of files. I can now play get_iplayer radio downloads in M4A
> format, rather than transcoding them to MP3 as I had to do with my old
> player. But they only seek correctly if I remux them using MP4Box
> using the -ipod switch (see my question on the Rockbox forums -
> http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=48020). Is there a setting
> native to get_iplayer that will do the remuxing without additionally
> passing the file through MP4Box?

Try --ffmpeg-radio-opts="-movflags faststart" with get_iplayer.  If that 
doesn't work, use --command to automatically run MPBox on the file after 
download.




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