Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

On Wednesday 06 Jul 2016 16:07:17 Stroller wrote: > > On 5 Jul 2016, at 16:54, wabe wrote: > > > > If you wanna put the audio data into another container without recoding > > it, you can use for example something like that: > > > > ffmpeg -i filename.mp4 -acodec copy

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

> On 5 Jul 2016, at 16:54, wabe wrote: > > If you wanna put the audio data into another container without recoding > it, you can use for example something like that: > > ffmpeg -i filename.mp4 -acodec copy filename.m4a This has worked. Many thanks for your help. I did not

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

> On 5 Jul 2016, at 23:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 13:30:16 +0100, Stroller wrote: > >> The question may boil down to the Google Drive audio / video player, >> and its (in)ability to play AAC audio. But that would be surprising, >> don't you think? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 13:30:16 +0100, Stroller wrote: > The question may boil down to the Google Drive audio / video player, > and its (in)ability to play AAC audio. But that would be surprising, > don't you think? Possibly, but easy to test. Download the file from drive to local storage then try

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

> > Just top be clear: I'm pretty sure that's not _extracting_ the audio, but > _transcoding_ it. > > The midentify output in my original post shows the audio to be AAC. Extraction is; ffmpeg -i "input file.mp4" -acodec copy "output file.aac" Man page; " Stream copy Stream copy is a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2016, Stroller wrote: >Well, I tried that. > > youtube-dl -x --audio-format best http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07fl5bh > >This gives an .m4a file which also does not play on the device. Have you tried mkv? E.g. download to m4a as above and then do a quick mkvmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

There is a VLC port in the Play Store. You can check F-Droid as well. Also consider Termux although it has out of date repos.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

Stroller wrote: > I've only recently started using my Android device for playing audio. > > About once a week I listen to a podcast, which is usually an MP3 I've > downloaded from NPR.org. > > On my laptop I copy these to Google Drive (big shout to >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

> On 4 Jul 2016, at 22:56, Willie M wrote: > > I also tried to download it and play it using best but it would not > play. You best bet is to just extract the audio as mp3 using the command > I showed you. Just top be clear: I'm pretty sure that's not _extracting_

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

On 07/02/2016 05:30 AM, Stroller wrote: > >> On 2 Jul 2016, at 10:43, Mick wrote: >> >> Since the youtube-dl can only download the audio stream as suggested above, >> you don't need to transcode with ffmpeg - although it is not difficult to do >> so >> for streams

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

On 07/02/2016 05:30 AM, Stroller wrote: > >> On 2 Jul 2016, at 10:43, Mick wrote: >> >> Since the youtube-dl can only download the audio stream as suggested above, >> you don't need to transcode with ffmpeg - although it is not difficult to do >> so >> for streams

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

> On 2 Jul 2016, at 10:43, Mick wrote: > > Since the youtube-dl can only download the audio stream as suggested above, > you don't need to transcode with ffmpeg - although it is not difficult to do > so > for streams you have already downloaded: > > ffmpeg -i

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

On Friday 01 Jul 2016 15:52:49 Willie M wrote: > On 07/01/2016 03:10 PM, Stroller wrote: > > I've only recently started using my Android device for playing audio. > > > > About once a week I listen to a podcast, which is usually an MP3 I've > > downloaded from NPR.org. > > > > On my laptop I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

On 07/01/2016 03:10 PM, Stroller wrote: > I've only recently started using my Android device for playing audio. > > About once a week I listen to a podcast, which is usually an MP3 I've > downloaded from NPR.org. > > On my laptop I copy these to Google Drive (big shout to net-misc/drive) and >

[gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

I've only recently started using my Android device for playing audio. About once a week I listen to a podcast, which is usually an MP3 I've downloaded from NPR.org. On my laptop I copy these to Google Drive (big shout to net-misc/drive) and then I can access then via Drive on my Android phone.