get_iplayer 2.94-184-gbf6d7eb-ppa23p6 - deprecated options

[Kevin Lynch]

Hi Jon

Thanks for clarifying.

I agree conversion to mp3 is not really GIP functionality. - I've
found it useful and was a little surprised it was removed.
I no longer have my older devices that can't play the m4a files. So
I'll stick with m4a files

regards

Kevin



On 12 June 2016 at 20:45, Jon Davies <jon at hedgerows.org.uk> wrote:
> On 9 June 2016 at 14:24, Kevin Lynch <klynchk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just noticed my get_iplayer has started  throwing these error
>> messages, which I "fixed" by commenting out the lines in the files.
>>
>> WARNING: Deprecated option in /var/lib/get_iplayer/options: 'rtmpdump
>> = /usr/bin/rtmpdump'
> [repeated messages deleted]
>
> the messages relating to options in /var/lib and /etc should disappear
> in the next couple of days when I get around to pushing the
> corresponding updates to the ppa.
>
>> The message that concerns me is
>>
>> WARNING: Deprecated option in /home/kevin/.get_iplayer/options: 'aactomp3 = 1'
>>
>> which means my files will no longer be converted to mp3. Did I miss
>> the discussion somewhere that concluded conversion to mp3 would be
>> removed?
>
> If there was a discussion, I missed it too.
>
> But I'd argue that gip's purpose is to download files - and not to
> transcode them.  there are other (usually better) tools for that. (the
> problem with including conversion to other formats is that everyone
> wants something different, and before you know it you implement all
> the options some transcoding tool gives you, making gip excessively
> complex.)
>
>> What is regarded as best practice to create mp3 files today? I suspect
>> AAC is now the preferred format
>
> It's more that AAC is the native format, rather than preferred, but...
>
> you could use the command option to call ffmpeg on your downloaded
> files to transcode into any format you fancy.  See
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/documentation#custom-commands
> for some suggestions.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jon