Issues with Large Files

[RS]

>From: Budge

>Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2017 13:11
>> The issue could be that Linn's player doesn't have enough memory to read 
>> the sample tables from the file's MP4 container, so it refuses to play 
>> the file. If >>so, splitting the file or transcoding to FLAC are probably 
>> the best options.

>Breaking up the download into acts would be a huge task and one I cannot 
>contemplate for more than a couple of favourites and with my RPi working so 
>well the Linn devices may be destined for ebay!

It seems a bit extreme to throw out the amplifier.  At 320kbit/s can you 
tell the difference between AAC  and MP3 in a blind comparison?  You can 
convert to MP3 after a download fairly effortlessly using a preset as 
described here under Option Presets and Shortcuts and then Custom commands.
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/documentation
It takes about 6% of real time.  If MP3 is not acceptable, as suggested you 
could convert to FLAC.

If the Linn player moves seamlessly from one file to the next you could 
split it into fixed length files of half an hour or an hour.

What I haven't yet understood, both from the problem you have and the 
problem I have, is why it is more difficult for a player to play a long 
piece in AAC than in other formats.  I thought this was something 
segmentation and fragmentation was supposed to deal with, to facilitate 
streaming.