GiP mp4s and Panasonic PVR

[Peter S Kirk]

On 23 Nov 2015 at 14:39, Nick Payne Nick Payne 
<nick.payne at internode.on.net> wrote:

> 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,

Thanks for confirming the mkv container worked.

Thanks too for sharing the --mkv command line option which I did not know 
about.

Cheers,

Peter