FLV Truncation

[haricot]

I’ve used Audacity for several years to edit FLV files downloaded from BBC iPlayer. Each is around 30 minutes & plays without issue but when loaded into Audacity, they are truncated to around 6 minutes. This only seems to affect programmes downloaded after late October 2015. Has anyone else come across this issue?

Windows 10
Audacity 2.1.2

[steve]

I think the BBC did that to make it harder for people to breach the terms of the license agreement:

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/help.shtml#9
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/additional_iplayer.shtml#2

[haricot]

I suspected that might be the case. I wish the BBC would edit the shows down to remove the padding (several minutes) at the start & end of shows. I listen to a lot of their shows when driving & I don’t want to be fiddling with my phone to skip the dross.

[Gale_Andrews]

Where do you play the files when they play correctly? You could always record them as they play.

Does Audacity show you a dialogue for which streams to select when you import the video?


Gale

[haricot]

@Gale Andrews

Where do you play the files when they play correctly? You could always record them as they play.

Does Audacity show you a dialogue for which streams to select when you import the video?


Gale

I can play them in VLC. There’s no Audacity dialogue for stream selection. These are audio only & presumably a single stream.

[Gale_Andrews]

@haricot

@Gale Andrews

Where do you play the files when they play correctly? You could always record them as they play.

Does Audacity show you a dialogue for which streams to select when you import the video?


Gale

I can play them in VLC. There’s no Audacity dialogue for stream selection. These are audio only & presumably a single stream.

So in that case is it not some kind of Audacity issue? It would only be a DRM restriction if you could play the file in the iPlayer or some approved application but nowhere else.


Gale