2 or 3 globals but I think that is it and then code could be split up with a few hrs refactoring if you really wanted it split up... Hello I was just trying to figure out what ffmpeg command is used by get_iplayer to convert .flv files (the video format flash uses) to .mp4, so I could use my ps3 to watch get_iplayer recordings on my tv. ffmpeg is an audio/video converter, that above command goes in a command line terminal and will convert .flv or .mov files to mp4. If you're using windows read this http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/wiki/index.ph\\... there are some gui front ends available just have a google, unfortunately this is no help to the problem you're having a few posts up, hopefully a helpful windows user will steer you towards a solution, as a helpful linux user I can suggest installing a linux distro beside windows and using get_iplayer in that Yes thanks, I see that now -- it looks like wma is the only available mode but get_iplayer converts this to aac. But my portable player doesn't do aac so I'll have to convert after the download. I wonder why get_iplayer was designed to convert real to mp3 but wma to aac? It does not convert wma to aac. It uses the flash streams which are native aac/mp4a. Hmm, maybe it converts real to mp3 because real format is a streaming format. If it doesn't work for you then this clearly is not the place to get