Local Radio - partial files

bat guano batguano999 at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 20 15:51:58 EDT 2011




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> Hi
> Is there a particular reason why get_iplayer uses mPlayer to extract the mp3 from local radio flv files instead of FFmpeg?
> Does it do a better job, or is it a legacy, or what?
> (Just curious)
>
Forget it.
I think I can answer my own question.
When using FFmpeg to extract the mp3 it throws up a lot of errors about "non monotonically increasing dts".
So maybe the result won't play well with iTunes etc. without further modification.
mPlayer method is very safe. ;-)
 		 	   		  


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