Requests For Features

[Budgie]

On 13/09/15 17:49, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
> On Sun Sep 13 15:48:42 BST 2015, Budgie wrote:
>
>> Using gfv gives me, not surprisingly, .flv files.
>> I thought when I used it a couple of years back
>> that it could deliver .mp4.
>
> Hello!
>
> GFV is a multi-downloader, supporting a vast variety of sites.
> Each site may use a different streaming method,
> hence the downloaded file will vary in its container/file extension...
>
> If you're using GFV to fetch ITV video-on-demand,
> this is being streamed via RTMPE protocol and the tool
> GFV uses to do the fetch is rtmpdump - AS I HAVE POSTED
> MANY TIMES IN THIS LIST IN THE PAST, RTMPDUMP
> ALWAYS SAVES THE DOWNLOADED STREAM WITHIN
> THE FLV CONTAINER, HENCE THE PROPER FILE
> EXTENSION SHOULD BE ".flv"
>
> You can losslessly remux to another container (e.g. MP4/MPEG-TS)
> post download via ffmpeg; I have posted the relevant command
> in one of our previous exchanges, both here in the list and in private
> (ffmpeg -i "itv.flv" -c copy -f mp4 "itv.mp4" ; I also use
> "-bsf:a aac_adtstoasc" in the above command, maybe it's not strictly
> needed - as someone said - but to include it won't do any harm...).
>
> For the record, prior to Feb 2013, GFV - via its
> itv.pm plugin - used to save ITV VOD with a wrong
> file extension ".mp4"; again, that was audio-video
> streams saved by rtmpdump inside the FLV container,
> but the file was erroneously given the ".mp4"
> extension, when it should've been ".flv";
> this inconsistency was fixed by commit:
>
> https://github.com/njtaylor/get-flash-videos/commit/4a1cd86b3599aa03c405267331c9cb408fea767c
>
>
> So, YES, your imagination is not playing tricks on you...
>
> Many regards,
> Vangelis.
>
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Hi Vangelis,
Many thanks and I had not forgotten your earlier help.  It was just I 
thought my memory was playing tricks.  Glad to learn it is not, at least 
on this matter.
Regards,
Budge