get_iplayer Remux: Programme "already in history" error

[Xander Squier]

Thank you 1&All for replying.

Indeed, remuxing using ffmpeg is easy enough and running a batch script
to do so on a handful of them is also straightforward.

The question about the user command arose because it would, we thought,
help us on toward another goal: That of not having to tag downloads
individually as a post-process for [a bunch of] MP4s produced via custom
ffmpeg options.

Yet since posting the original question, it seems that invoking a user
command results in the tagging step being skipped over altogether.

So if anyone has an idea of how to drive get_iplayer to automatically
tag in this scenario, or perhaps even on how to produce a script for a
post process, then please do let us know.

Thanks again.

On 04/01/2021 00:51, Steve Wilson wrote:

> On 03/01/2021 22:26, Xander Squier wrote:
>> Hello 1&All,
>> We are trying to remux a raw recording using the Windows command:-
>>
>> /get_iplayer --pid=b08bzzns --command-tv="ffmpeg -i \""<filename>"\"
>> -c:v copy -c:a copy -y \""<dir>\<fileprefix>".mkv\""/
>> This returns a programme "already in history" error necessitating the
>> --force option. The trouble is that using this results in a redownload
>> of the recording which is what we are trying to avoid.
>> Please help up see what we are missing - thanks.
>
> If you've still got the original file you probably just want to run
> just the ffmpeg command to convert it. If you don't then the --force
> may well be the only option.
>
> You may need to use get_iplayer --info ... to establish what the
> <dir>, <filename> and <fileprefix> are in your case.
>
> Steve.
>
>
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