GiP mp4s and Panasonic PVR

[Nick Payne]

On 23/11/2015 6:28 AM, Peter S Kirk wrote:
> 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?
> 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.

Thanks for the suggestion. I found that adding the --mkv command line 
option to GiP created an mkv output file directly that the DLNA client 
in the PVR played without any problem.

Nick