Watching iPlayer material on a Sony Ericsson K550i

Find material on iPlayer

Click "Download"

Right click on the "Download for Windows Media Player" link and copy the link to the clipboard (Ctrl-C)

THIS NO LONGER WORKS ---> Paste into ipdl.exe (po-ru.com) and download

SO INSTEAD ---> Run ipdd.exe and paste link (https://github.com/theSmallNothing/ipdd/) download high quality

Convert using Super C (erightsoft.com) with the following parameters:

On the K550, after selecting the video to view, select "More" and choose Landscape Mode.

Notes:

Super C uses FFmpeg, so there are probably lots of other programs that could be used for this step. VLC could probably also be used instead of Super C to transcode the MP4 to something compatible with the K550i.

6.25 fps is a bit jerky, and something faster would probably also be compatible with the K550i.

When the file is wildly incompatible, the K550i player just refuses to play it. When the file is closer to compatibility, but not quite right the following problems occur:

At high frame rates I have found that the sound and video can get out of step.

Whenever I tried doing two audio channels there was a weird "phasing" audio distortion, especially on loud passages and on applause.