Why mp4 or mp4.ts from identical installation?

artisticforge . artisticforge at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 12:56:17 PST 2017


hello

a mistake in the command.
the command that i use is:
~/get_iplayer-2.96/get_iplayer --tag-isodate --verbose --mode=best
--type=tv --pid=<PID>  2>&1 | tee ~/get_iplayer-log/get_iplayer-2.96-YYYY-MM-DD


too much morphine. :-(

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 7:29 AM, artisticforge . <artisticforge at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello
>
> based sole on dump.txt the centos linux install does not have ffmpeg installed.
> the fedora install does have ffmpeg installed. fedora install does not
> have AtomicParsley installed. I see no attempt to tag the output.
>
> the command that i use is:
> ~/get_iplayer-2.96/get_iplayer --tag-isodate --verbose --mode=best
> --type=tv --pid=<PID>  2>&1
> ~/get_iplayer-log/get_iplayer-2.96-YYYY-MM-DD
>
> I do not use the web interface so i can not help you there.
> i normal use bash shell scripts and some perl scripts to download what i desire.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Charles Bradshaw
> <charles.bradshaw at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> * atomicparsley is not present in either of my installations!
>>
>> Please, I am serious about solving this problem. Do not reply off list. I
>> have received some off list replies, clearly indicating poor understanding
>> of both mailing list protocol and the amount of effort I prepared to invest.
>>
>> Is the attachment to my original post available to the list members? There
>> are important clues in it, and  if not I will summarise it.
>>
>> I think the .mp4.ts producing install failed as the result of something
>> missing, or perhaps a version dependency.
>>
>> Can I dump the ffmpeg and RTMPDump commands?
>>
>>
>> On 06/02/17 15:30, artisticforge . wrote:
>>>
>>> hello
>>>
>>> check that ffmpeg & atomicparsley are both installed.
>>> I had this happen on a new install of trisquel linux on a laptop.
>>> neither ffmpeg nor atomicparsley were installed. once installed
>>> everything works.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Charles Bradshaw
>>> <charles.bradshaw at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello List
>>>>
>>>> I have get_iplayer and get_iplayer.cgi installed under 2 different
>>>> flavors of Linux, Fedora in the first case and CentOS in the second.
>>>>
>>>> The Identical installs are run under Apache and are installed as per
>>>> instructions here: github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/webpvrold
>>>>
>>>> The problem I'm seeing is that apparently identical installations
>>>> produce different recorded file formats. The Fedora install produces
>>>> vanilla .mp4, but the CentOS install produces .mp4.ts
>>>>
>>>> (please see - attached dump.txt.zip containing radically different
>>>> record information from the different installations.)
>>>>
>>>> Why do two identical installations produce different file encoding? The
>>>> latter .mp4.ts is huge (213,733,064) the former .mp4 is only half the
>>>> size (123,967,485). Also the transport stream file is more or less
>>>> useless because at present no browsers native HTML5 player supports ts.
>>>>
>>>> Presumably, I can configure my CentOS (mp4.ts producing) install to
>>>> produce vanilla .mp4, but how?
>>>>
>>>> I have slightly different versions of ffmpeg, 2.8.10 (Fedora) and 2.2.1
>>>> (CentOS); and RTMPDump v2.4 (Fedora) and RTMPDump v2.2e (CentOS) -
>>>> perhaps there are problems here?
>>>>
>>>> Thank in advance.
>>>>
>>>> PS Neither install is public facing!
>>>>
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>>>
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