Downloads to .mov by default, IIRC get_iplayer has options to have ffmpeg convert it. I don't bother, I just open up VLC and watch the damn thing.
-- Mehall Harry Rickards wrote: > On 3 May 2009, at 21:35, Simos Xenitellis <simos.li...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > >> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Harry Rickards >> <hricka...@l33tmyst.com> wrote: >> >>> On 3 May 2009, at 21:18, David King <linux...@avoura.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I was watching the BBC News 24 TV programme "Click" broadcast this >>>> weekend. When they were testing a 100 Mbit/s broadband connection, >>>> they >>>> used it to download two copies of Ubuntu 9.04 simultaneously. A good >>>> advert for Ubuntu. >>>> >>> Just out of interest, how long did it take? >>> >> It showed only a short segment of the download, demonstrating that >> the download speed was about 77Mbps. It appeared that the issue of >> choosing >> the Ubuntu ISO had to do with the availability of a fast distribution >> server, so one can >> put together a simple benchmark. Still, this was good. >> >> If you get 'get_iplayer' (http://linuxcentre.net/iplayer), then you >> can download the episode >> with >> >> get_iplayer --get 128 (expires on the 10th May) >> >> Simos >> >> > > What format does this download in, and will ffmpeg convert it to ogg > theora + vorbis okay (I assume it's some proprietary format with DRM > on)? I only ask as I refuse to watch non FLOSS codec video when I'm on > a device that can handle it. > > Many thanks > Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
