FFmpeg 1.1 released

[Shevek]

On 10 January 2013 21:26, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 10 January 2013 21:22, dinkypumpkin <dinkypumpkin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/01/2013 21:06, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> I thought it was better to use rtmpdump and not ffmpeg.
>>
>> They provide separate functions - you want both.
>
> OK, thanks.  I obviously missed something along the way.  Is it that
> one /can/ just use ffmpeg but it is better to install rtmpdump as
> well, in which case get-iplayer will use it?

You are confusing flvstreamer and ffmpeg

rtmpdump replaced flvstreamer as the utility that get_iplayer uses to
stream the file from the internet to your computer

ffmpeg is used by get_iplayer to repackage the flv file that rtmpdump
(and previously flvstreamer) saves into a different, more compatible
format (mp4 for video, m4a for audio)