Local Radio - partial files

[Mable Syrup]

-- On Fri, 7/10/11, bat guano <batguano999 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: bat guano <batguano999 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Local Radio - partial files
> To: blackonesugar at yahoo.co.uk, "get_iplayer" <get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org>
> Date: Friday, 7 October, 2011, 14:42
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> > I'm trying to record from BBC Radio London, but I'm
> > not getting completion, only a partial.mp3.flv.
>
> Hi
> This local radio download is mp3 (not aac) audio inside the
> flv file.
> It uses mPlayer to extract the mp3.
> It worked OK for me.
> "The_Scrum_with_Sara_Orchard_and_Andy_Rowley_-_06_10_2011_p00khb8w_default.mp3"
>
> In your case, something has gone wrong with the mPlayer
> stage after the flv was downloaded.
> Make sure that you have mPlayer installed.
>
> Until you get it fixed, you can extract the mp3 from
> "default.partial.mp3.flv" files yourself.
> Something like this:-
> ffmpeg -i filename.default.partial.mp3.flv -acodec copy
> filename.mp3
>
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>

Ta,

That (installing mplayer - I thought it had already been pulled in earlier) did the trick. Will be looking at what ffmpeg can do next although the -h is a bit daunting!

Mable

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