GiP mp4s and Panasonic PVR

[Peter S Kirk]

On 22 Nov 2015 at 22:42, Nick Payne Nick Payne 
<nick.payne at internode.on.net> wrote:

> I recently purchased a Panasonic DMR-HWT250 PVR, which can also function 
> as a DLNA client - I run Serviio on my PC as the server. I can use the 
> DLNA client on the PVR to play MP4s I create myself, but if I try to 
> play any of the MP4s downloaded by GiP, I just get a "Please wait" 
> message on the TV screen and the file never starts playing.
> 
> I re-encoded a couple of the GiP MP4s using VidCoder (which uses 
> HandBrake as its encoding engine), and then copied the re-encoded MP4s 
> over the ones downloaded by GiP, and those re-encoded MP4s play through 
> the DLNA client without any problem...
> 
> I'm running GiP 2.94 on Windows, and the command I use is just
> 
> get_iplayer --pid=nnnnnnnn --modes=hlsbest
> 
> Any suggestions on any command line options I can try to get around this 
> problem?
> 
> Nick

Try running the mp4 through mkvtoolnix, the conversion to mkv seems to 
strip out a lot of the container info that iPlayer and GiP add.

Cheers