[mythtv-users] nuvexport/mplayer mp3 conversion problem

[Mike Holden]

Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Håkon Alstadheim
> <hakon at alstadheim.priv.no> wrote:
>> Mike Holden wrote:
>>>
>>> Ben Ward wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I used to have a nice simple facility to export  radio programmes
>>>> recorded using DVB-T on freeview.  Somewhere along the way this broke.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Theres a standalone contrib program called something like
>>> dvbradioexport.pl which works fine for me. Have a look in your
>>> installation for this.
>>>
>>
>> This does not work for recordings with aac audio. Any idea how to modify
>> it
>> for that?
>
>
> from the look of the script
> (http://miffteevee.co.uk/documentation/development/dvbradioexport_8pl-source.html
> ), this is the line that does the work:
>
>  $command = "nice -n19 ffmpeg -i $filename -ab $bitrate -ac 2 -acodec
> mp3 -f mp3 '$newfilename' 2>&1";
>
>
> Maybe your ffmpeg doesn't handle aac audio. If you run ffmpeg it
> should tell you what options were compiled in.

Yeah, that's right. It's basically a very simple wrapper for ffmpeg, so
any codecs that your system has can be used. I need to modify the output
codec on my system (-acodec) to libmp3lame instead of mp3 as specified in
the script, for example.
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