/vdr-convert is a tool to accurately transcode VDR1.x and VDR2.x TV recordings, including all valid streams - video, audio (including AC3/DTS 5.1), Audio Description (AD), and DVB subtitles - into more compressed and accessible formats, while maintaining perceived quality with good compatibility. /

The new Podcast mode provides highly compressed and fully metadata-tagged audio (i.e. radio recording) files suitable for portable players, using up-to-date codec options for more flexibility, better quality and compression than typical broadcaster MP3 downloads.  An optional post-processing command has been added to trigger re-indexing by a media server such as a Squeezeserver.

/See https://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/vdr-convert/wiki/Podcast-mode/

Changelog:

* Added --podcast option: podcasts stored in subdirectories, by Title (like VDR itself) * Podcast audio codec config: Can use (HE)AAC, Opus or MP3 * Extensive embedding of metadata in output files (mainly for podcasts) * Added -g option for genre files to define mapping of VDR's G tag to text * Significant H265 setting updates to reflect recent improvements * Slight H264 compression increase to reflect recent improvements * More extensive checking of ffmpeg build options (codec library checks) * Detect short initial recording files & delete (VPS aborted start) * Various other fixes and improvements, incl. for FTP/redo modes * Fixes for recent ffmpeg versions (3.3+)

Enjoy!

Richard