Why mp4 or mp4.ts from identical installation?

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hello

check that ffmpeg & atomicparsley are both installed.
I had this happen on a new install of trisquel linux on a laptop.
neither ffmpeg nor atomicparsley were installed. once installed
everything works.




On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Charles Bradshaw
<charles.bradshaw at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hello List
>
> I have get_iplayer and get_iplayer.cgi installed under 2 different
> flavors of Linux, Fedora in the first case and CentOS in the second.
>
> The Identical installs are run under Apache and are installed as per
> instructions here: github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/webpvrold
>
> The problem I'm seeing is that apparently identical installations
> produce different recorded file formats. The Fedora install produces
> vanilla .mp4, but the CentOS install produces .mp4.ts
>
> (please see - attached dump.txt.zip containing radically different
> record information from the different installations.)
>
> Why do two identical installations produce different file encoding? The
> latter .mp4.ts is huge (213,733,064) the former .mp4 is only half the
> size (123,967,485). Also the transport stream file is more or less
> useless because at present no browsers native HTML5 player supports ts.
>
> Presumably, I can configure my CentOS (mp4.ts producing) install to
> produce vanilla .mp4, but how?
>
> I have slightly different versions of ffmpeg, 2.8.10 (Fedora) and 2.2.1
> (CentOS); and RTMPDump v2.4 (Fedora) and RTMPDump v2.2e (CentOS) -
> perhaps there are problems here?
>
> Thank in advance.
>
> PS Neither install is public facing!
>
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