On 23 Nov 2015 at 14:39, Nick Payne Nick Payne <nick.pa...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> On 23/11/2015 6:28 AM, Peter S Kirk wrote: > > On 22 Nov 2015 at 22:42, Nick Payne Nick Payne > > <nick.pa...@internode.on.net> wrote: > > > >> I recently purchased a Panasonic DMR-HWT250 PVR, which can also function > >> as a DLNA client - I run Serviio on my PC as the server. I can use the > >> DLNA client on the PVR to play MP4s I create myself, but if I try to > >> play any of the MP4s downloaded by GiP, I just get a "Please wait" > >> message on the TV screen and the file never starts playing. > >> > >> I re-encoded a couple of the GiP MP4s using VidCoder (which uses > >> HandBrake as its encoding engine), and then copied the re-encoded MP4s > >> over the ones downloaded by GiP, and those re-encoded MP4s play through > >> the DLNA client without any problem... > >> > >> I'm running GiP 2.94 on Windows, and the command I use is just > >> > >> get_iplayer --pid=nnnnnnnn --modes=hlsbest > >> > >> Any suggestions on any command line options I can try to get around this > >> problem? > > Try running the mp4 through mkvtoolnix, the conversion to mkv seems to > > strip out a lot of the container info that iPlayer and GiP add. > > Thanks for the suggestion. I found that adding the --mkv command line > option to GiP created an mkv output file directly that the DLNA client > in the PVR played without any problem. > Nick, Thanks for confirming the mkv container worked. Thanks too for sharing the --mkv command line option which I did not know about. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
