Thank you - great work ....

SquarePenguin getiplayer at squarepenguin.co.uk
Fri Nov 7 13:16:37 PST 2014


On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 22:48:06 +0200
"Vangelis forthnet" <northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr> wrote:

> On Fri Nov 7 14:12:27 GMT 2014, SquarePenguin wrote:
> 
> > After download it transcodes 
> > (I think that's the right word) the flv to mp4
> 
> With respect SP, "transcodes" refers to change 
> of video and/or audio codec (from one codec to 
> another codec
(snip)
> 128kbps is the mean value of the bitrate of the 
> flashaacstd audio mode; most probably, this is 
> ffmpeg output from the remuxing process of the 
> initial FLV container to the MP4 one (which, 
> for audio streams, uses the Apple introduced 
> .m4a file extension).

Yeah, I'm conflating terms and mixing up file types and all sorts. Bit of a train wreck! I can never remember which one means what and I've got everything all arse about face to put it kindly.

> Unless the OP (CJB) has --aactomp3 in his 
> "options" file, in which case it should be (as you say) 
> ffmpeg output from the "transcoding" process 
> of the AAC-LC audio stream (contained in the 
> FLV file) to the end MP3 audio stream (GiP 
> by default encodes to MP3 at 128kbps CBR).

So there is hope I might have got it right by accident??? :-)




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